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Just above top middle...Geo
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Is it at the bottom of photo in the middle? I see something black and curvy. Gil
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no...Geo
Where I said, coiled up...Geo
Last edited by Geo. Newbern; 03/02/18 12:06 PM. Reason: added final sentence
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Jeez Gil, you must be too used to snakes. That snake that coosa showed damn near jumped off the screen at me.
The world cries out for such: he is needed & needed badly- the man who can carry a message to Garcia
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I stepped within a foot of this guy in TX last spring. He made a hissing sound and went about 20' and then coiled up. Sorry I didn't get closer and make a better picture, but that snake was so quick I wasn't getting any closer.
. Give me a hint where the snake is in the photo. Gil Sorry Gil, just now checking back in, but Woody found him for you. I think that is a Western Diamondback, but I'm not really knowledgeable on TX snakes. He sure did get my attention that morning. I would buy some snake protection if I saw many like him.
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A close friend is one of the world's top venomous snake experts. He says that the majority of rattlesnake bites in the US are to young men playing with them to impress young women. Needless to say, most of the time drink has been taken.
The most common poisonous snake where I work in Kenya is the puff adder, and the ones around here are unusually large - a big female can be six feet long and a foot across. They are well camouflaged and very sluggish, easy to step on in long grass. Same friend was describing their hemotoxic venom, evolved in part to digest large prey like bunnies from the inside. His memorable description was "If one bites you, an hour later you can pour your leg into a bucket." Between puff adders, buffalo and elephants, a walk in the bush keeps you awake. However, although I have lost a number of friends to buffalo and one just last month to an elephant, the only puff adder death I recall was ... a foolish young man playing with one.
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LGF, the young man and drink combination is usually accompanied by "hey, watch this." This kid won the Darwin award a few years ago: http://abcnews.go.com/US/video/man-bitten-kisses-venomous-snake-30522621Here's the canebrake I saw while I was looking for chanterelles in June. I've hunted turkeys in this same location since the 1970's. The snake is in a coil the size of an old Buick hubcap. He looked like he'd recently shed as the colors were bright and defined. He's in the center, sunning, 1/3 down from the top just above and below the shadows. The only markings visible are four dark triangular shapes in two pairs at right angles. He's light tan. I wasn't inclined to do anything closer. Gil 
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