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In my backyard...

tradernick

tradernick

Just another Florida guy
Yesterday from my kitchen window I saw a snake in my back yard...just outside the screen enclosure. I grabbed a pillow case and dashed (barefoot)outside...then stopped abruptly when I saw what it was. I was staring at a Cottonmouth...a young adult, I'm pretty sure. About 3 feet long, hefty but not as girthy as some I've seen. There's a wooded area behind my house and there might be standing water there...that would explain his visit, since there's no ponds or lakes nearby, that I know of.
I ran inside to grab my camera, couldn't find it so didn't get any pics. Beautiful but deadly.

I'll be extra careful with the yardwork I have to do this week in case he's still lurking around. I'd just finished mowing that same spot and had come inside for a drink.

Made me feel somewhat foolish for riding around looking for snakes lol.
Nick
 
Not quite as exciting but when I let the dogs out in the backyard yesterday afternoon a black racer tried to come into my house! I think it had been sunning on the patio and when the dogs ran by it tried to get to safety ASAP and wound up slamming into the sliding glass door as I closed it.

Didn't get a chance for pics since it hauled butt into the bushes as soon as it figured out it was not getting through the glass.
 
I caught cottonmouth back in Florida when I was only 14 yr old.
I just basically learn how to catch snakes from "Crocodile Hunter".
Steve Irwin was my idol, god bless him.

I hate seein' dead snake in our backyard because my stepdad wanted to kill
every snakes if it approach to our yard.
I repeatly told him not to do that again, but he doesn't listen.
 
are you sure it was a Cotton Mouth and not maybe a water snake. So many people confuse them for each other.

here are some pictures.
Agkistrodon piscivorus. Florida Cottonmouth, Cottonmouth Moccasin, Water Moccasin, Moccasin.
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agkistrodon-piscivorus-co2.jpg


I find that these 2 are most commonly mistaken for a cotton mouth.
But Florida is filled with watersnakes. and these are only 2 examples.

Nerodia fasciata pictiventris Florida Banded water snake
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Nerodia sipedon pleuralis Midland Water snake
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No doubt in my mind. I grew up with a fishin' pond next to our house in Mississippi and I've seen my share of them. This is the first one I've seen in FL in the wild, though I figure they're plentiful here.
Nick
 
JoshnJJ said:
I caught cottonmouth back in Florida when I was only 14 yr old.
I just basically learn how to catch snakes from "Crocodile Hunter".
Steve Irwin was my idol, god bless him.

I hate seein' dead snake in our backyard because my stepdad wanted to kill
every snakes if it approach to our yard.
I repeatly told him not to do that again, but he doesn't listen.
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I hate seeing dead snake anywhere. Especially knowing they didn't need to be dead.
I've always been fascinated with snakes. (Any kind). I could sit and watch them all day if they'd stay there.
I'd get really upset when I heard or saw someone kill one just because it was a snake !.. . . Got really upset with my best friend one time because of that. We took our girlfriends out horseback riding Several Years ago (one of those 8 hour guided rides). About halfway into it, the young lady who was leading our group's horse rared up and she yelled Snake. My friend and I got off our horses and walked up front and the girl was pointing over to the side of the trail. There was this BEAUTIFUL snake standing up like a cobra with it's neck hooded out and eveything. It was redish gray with yellow markings and the most beautiful snake I've ever seen. I was too busy watching the snake to realize my friend had picked up a large rock and just as I said NO . . . the rock came down and the snake was no more !! . . I got really upset and we had some words because of it. The girl that saw the snake originally tried to get him not to kill it either, but he had to save the day. . . . . Found out later this was probably a off beed of a Hognosed snake. I've seen those flatten out and his like a cobra, but never had seen one that color. Before that incident, or since. It was a sensless act against something that presented no harm to anyone.
 
Yeah, I still do catch snakes in my whole life.
Been catching poisonious snakes, such like coral and pymy (sp?) rattler.

Few weeks ago, my stepdad killed the beautiful snake and it was
Eastern King snake. I told him not to kill anymore, but my
mother yelled at me and said that she don't want to die from any
snakes. I told them that there is only 2 poisonious snakes around here,
is copperhead and rattlesnake.
 
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