Snakes!

[bayoubill]

Yesterday I had to battle a Water Moccasin on the porch. This morning a rattler in the kitchen. It's getting to where is not safe in the bayou! 

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19 minutes ago, bayoubill said:

Yesterday I had to battle a Water Moccasin on the porch. This morning a rattler in the kitchen. It's getting to where is not safe in the bayou! 

Maybe they like your cooking Bill.

[PhonoBrainer]

Now Bayou Bill was a Cajun,

he lived by hisself in the swamp

He hunted alligator fo livin!

He just knock'em in the head with a stump.

 

[bayoubill]

Dat’s pretty accurate 

[bayoubill]

Cept for my gray hair

[Notes_Norton]

I had to sweep a coral snake out of our living room. It cooperated.

I have a 6' Coachwhip that lives under my house. It got in the porch one day, and it did not cooperate. Whatever way we wanted to guide it (the door) the snake went the opposite way. It was totally freaked of us. Eventually he went out.

Notes

[bayoubill]

Jerry reed didn’t have any in that photo 

[bayoubill]

I don’t kill them though. I took both to the lake edge and released them

[bayoubill]

They stuck at me several times. Luckily they didn’t get me. 

[craigb]

Yikes!  Start reminding them they taste like chicken.

[bayoubill]

D’uh I forgot about that. Dang 

I wonder if they’re still there?

[Mesh]

37 minutes ago, bayoubill said:

I don’t kill them though. I took both to the lake edge and released them

Join us next week when the Snake Whisperer wrestles an anaconda in his (swampy) backyard.  

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Bill I think you must be a Slytherin ?

 

[Starise]

As kids we swam in ponds with water moccasins in them. The water moccasins will mind their own business. They don't go on the offensive to get at you. The only way you might get bitten by one is if you accidentally step on it or are taunting it with a stick....oh and don't swim into a brood of their young. You're usually ok if you stay out in the deep water of the pond when swimming. Rattlesnakes are similar. They don't want to see you any more that you want to see them. Just don't step on one. That's usually a bad outcome.

Edited May 24, 2019 by Starise

[S.L.I.P.]

 

[bitflipper]

Just one of many reasons I live in the far north.

Granted, up here we're missing out on many of the South's distinctive charms. Hookworm, killer bees, black widows, wild pigs, hurricanes and backwater sheriff's deputies. Good thing you folks have the music thing going for ya.

[kitekrazy]

 In the desert we have lots of nasties but good extermination.  Usually rattlers are not in most populated areas.   I have yet to see a live scorpion.

[kitekrazy]

8 hours ago, bayoubill said:

Yesterday I had to battle a Water Moccasin on the porch. This morning a rattler in the kitchen. It's getting to where is not safe in the bayou! 

BTW we want photos next time.

[msmcleod]

Earlier this month we had a warning about adders around the Argyll & West Dumbartonshire area of Scotland.

Obviously the cold doesn't bother them, although, to be honest, it's never really that cold here. 

They're protected though - so they can bite you, but you can't fight back

 

[PhonoBrainer]

8 hours ago, bayoubill said:

Jerry reed didn’t have any in that photo 

Any opportunity for a Jerry Reed reference must be seized upon . . . !