Springs Here! Be Careful For Snakes

[idahogold]

Springs Here! Please be Careful on Sun warming area's  Both You and Your Dogs! There is a Poisonous snake vaccine available ask your vet!

For those w/experience in "Rattler Country" the "rattlin in the video is definitely on the quieter" and deadlier! (hard to pickup while detecting") side of what you hear in the field....there is also med.- loud. and even ragin' buzz saw Louder Crotalus' in the American Bush!

Post any USA or OZ reptile encounters during Gold hunts

 

[madtuna]

We've had 400mil of rain over Jan/Feb so ground water is every where. Every puddle has a bazzilion frogs in it so the snakes are having a feast. If I don't see at least one or 2 snakes a day I'm not looking hard enough.

Last week I was searching for something in a box stored under my bed. Pulled the box out and spotted a snake skin. He'd used the bed leg to help him shed. Looked like a decent sized Mulga snake.

Slept on the tray of my ute that night and dismantled my room the next day. Couldn't find the bugger anywhere, hopefully long gone.

[Digger Jones]

Spring ya it's only minus 22C here in northern Alberta!

Only snake seciles!

Man I miss the desert!

[idahogold]

dj- were 50f today central Idaho,     thaw Finally arrived,   going trout fishin...Cheers, Ig

3 hours ago, Digger Jones said:

Spring ya it's only minus 22C here in northern Alberta!

Only snake seciles!

Man I miss the desert!

 

[Digger Jones]

Lucky guy! Your weather should be here in a few days.

Good luck on the lake!

Cheers

[madtuna]

Not a snake, but a Bungarra. This bugger sneaks into my room if I leave the door open looking for a feed or stuff to steal.

He's an old boy about 6 foot long, and if I am laying on my bed his tail is at the foot of the bed and his head is at the top end looking up at me. I can hand feed him and have only been bitten once and that was only because he couldn't tell where the chicken ended and the hand started..my fault not his.

If the door is shut he will climb the fly screen until I let him in. Every now and then he will do a snatch and run from my dirty washing basket or anything I've left laying on the floor.

So far he's nicked 3 Tee shirts, 1 and a 1/2 pairs of thongs, 2 pairs of shorts, a fork and a tea spoon and a perfectly good pair of underpants.

I haven't seen him for about a month now, I have my suspicions the local aboriginals have visited while I was out and have now eaten him.

[GoldEn]

Cmon Steve you could cut his nails little. How he can put that thongs on. 

 

Thanks for sharing. Cool photos. 

Seems you have new pet but I preferred Elvis. 

 

Stay safe. 

[madtuna]

I miss my Elvis. She's been gone just over a year now. Damn snake got her too

[Digger Jones]

46 minutes ago, madtuna said:

Not a snake, but a Bungarra. This bugger sneaks into my room if I leave the door open looking for a feed or stuff to steal.

That is too cool! Hope he didn't end up on someone's dinner plate. Thanks for sharing the pictures! 

[madtuna]

15 minutes ago, Digger Jones said:

That is too cool! Hope he didn't end up on someone's dinner plate. Thanks for sharing the pictures! 

I suspect he has. They call in regularly on their way out hunting and have eyed him off for a year or two. Told them he was off limits but I think they nabbed him while I was out.

Mind you, I was running low on undies and if he'd nicked another pair I might have ate him myself