What happened to all the Snakes in WI? I used to see tons of them in Waukesha county, I go in some swampy areas fishing and or catching frogs, crawfish, clams, never seen a snake. Used to see Water Snakes on Ashippun
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Moon River,
That doesn't sound strange to me at all. That is exactly how my Brother-in Law, nephews and one of my Son-in-Laws are. They don't like snakes at all, but thankfully they don't kill them and just leave them alone.
The BIL I mentioned above even spent time in the Big Cypress National Preserve and Everglades with me a few years ago looking for invasive Burmese pythons. He was a good sport about it, and we only caught several native species. He didn't want to hold anything I caught, but hung in there and took photos. He learned a lot, that's for sure.
I got an early dose as a young kid when my dad and his cousin would take me out into the Sonoran desert and they would catch Western Diamondback Rattlesnakes and Mohave Rattlesnakes to "milk" their venom to produce antivenin.
That doesn't sound strange to me at all. That is exactly how my Brother-in Law, nephews and one of my Son-in-Laws are. They don't like snakes at all, but thankfully they don't kill them and just leave them alone.
The BIL I mentioned above even spent time in the Big Cypress National Preserve and Everglades with me a few years ago looking for invasive Burmese pythons. He was a good sport about it, and we only caught several native species. He didn't want to hold anything I caught, but hung in there and took photos. He learned a lot, that's for sure.
I got an early dose as a young kid when my dad and his cousin would take me out into the Sonoran desert and they would catch Western Diamondback Rattlesnakes and Mohave Rattlesnakes to "milk" their venom to produce antivenin.
I went on a 25 min walk this afternoon and saw 8 snakes and 1 five-lined skink. A couple of the snakes were sizable Fox Snakes. The 1st pic is a 4 ft chunky female that I never saw at first. It saw me and began the tail buzzing in the dry grass. I only saw it after it went into defensive posture (because I was about to step on it) and it came out from under the heavy, dry thatch. 2nd pic is another fox snake that was spotted crawling through the deep cattails. Last pic of a water snake coiled in the thatch, still drab from hibernation. The arrow points to its head and right eye.
Yeah, I hear ya BMR. I was hoping to take a longer off-road hike into the Florida pine flatlands last week to find an Eastern Diamondback Rattlesnake or an Eastern Indigo Snake because I was in prime habitat. But, after the alligator "incidents", my youngest daughter wanted to stick to the dirt roads and look at birds. Lol. We did however see some of the more common FL snakes; Peninsula Ribbon Snake, Eastern Garter Snake, Southern Black Racer, Southern Ring-necked Snake to name a few. No worthwhile photos of those. So, you'll have to be content with the usual WI stuff right now.
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