So Pirate55
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Pirates are the mascot of ECU (my school) so that's where my name came from but anywho....
I got off work today about 3 and i'm about to set foot in my appt complex when i see one of the yardmen jump back and yell to his coworker, "whoa it's a copperhead!, grab the hoe."
Even if it was a copperhead, there's no way that i'm about to let the critter meet it's maker in the form of a garden tool. I quickly ran over, but just to keep them from killing it. I get over there and low and behold it's a corn. It was a really pretty eastern NC corn. The borders were really bold even with the dark wash that it had about it.
So i convinced the 2 men that it was not a copperhead and to let me have it. I think they also think that i'm a little crazy. It was somewhere around 2.5 feet (guessing). It was a little spooked when i tried to pick it up but other than one flightly try at a get away, it was really calm tempered. I put him in a pillowcase and it now has a new home out at one of my dad's farms.
This is my second relocation but the first real "rescue". The other one was a black ratsnake that i moved so that my mom would actually go back in the yard. Anyway, i just thought i'd share. I guess you can consider this a Natural Observation.
~Harry
I got off work today about 3 and i'm about to set foot in my appt complex when i see one of the yardmen jump back and yell to his coworker, "whoa it's a copperhead!, grab the hoe."
Even if it was a copperhead, there's no way that i'm about to let the critter meet it's maker in the form of a garden tool. I quickly ran over, but just to keep them from killing it. I get over there and low and behold it's a corn. It was a really pretty eastern NC corn. The borders were really bold even with the dark wash that it had about it.
So i convinced the 2 men that it was not a copperhead and to let me have it. I think they also think that i'm a little crazy. It was somewhere around 2.5 feet (guessing). It was a little spooked when i tried to pick it up but other than one flightly try at a get away, it was really calm tempered. I put him in a pillowcase and it now has a new home out at one of my dad's farms.
This is my second relocation but the first real "rescue". The other one was a black ratsnake that i moved so that my mom would actually go back in the yard. Anyway, i just thought i'd share. I guess you can consider this a Natural Observation.
~Harry