Venomous Snakes in Maryland - Poll
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i would have left the shotgun there and go home to change my underware.
yellowfin
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Call Neville Flynn!
You need to take a canoe trip across Jug Bay in Summer.
Saw this on Facepage recently. I thought it'd fit in well with this thread:
https://www.facebook.com/100006052546763/videos/1934476136764119/
I had always heard of this happening, but never had seen it.
https://www.facebook.com/100006052546763/videos/1934476136764119/
I had always heard of this happening, but never had seen it.
Albedanged! (That's remarkable!)
Looks like a King snake killing a Copperhead?
So someone said in the comments, they added that King snakes kill all venomous snakes; by the looks of this video, sounds plausible.
alucard0822
For great Justice
Albedanged! (That's remarkable!)
Looks like a King snake killing a Copperhead?
So someone said in the comments, they added that King snakes kill all venomous snakes; by the looks of this video, sounds plausible.
pretty much, although they will eat most snakes and rodents, they are usually immune to venom from snakes in their locality. Their constriction power is insanely strong, much stronger than anything their size. really cool to keep as pets too, they are smart and not as shy as many other colubrid families.
I've been fishing/water fowling the Patuxent around Jug Bay for 30+ years, at least 20 of them by boat/kayak, and I've never, ever, ever seen a cottonmouth
Lots of water snakes, yes. Moccasins, never. Not once.
We don't have them here. It's just too cold, for too long, during the winter. They cannot live here.
Josey Wales
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In PA the rattlers are protected. There were three types that I encountered. The Yellow, The Timber and The Black. Yes, the damned thing looks just like a Non-poisonous Black Snake from a distance.
Since they are protected it did not take long for them to travel to Maryland. Catoctin has more than a few. Patapsco Park has Copperheads as well as Columbia.
Since they are protected it did not take long for them to travel to Maryland. Catoctin has more than a few. Patapsco Park has Copperheads as well as Columbia.
Doco Overboard
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I seen a snake hit by a car the other day on the road. It must have came out of the pond right there and good lordy that SOB was as big as they come. I didn't stop and check it out and I'm sure it wasn't poisonous but damn it was a nasty one. I should have took a picture of it because it was as big around or a touch larger as a baby food jar,and the time of the year.
I think it was one of those greenish brown water snakes that will come hot when you get near them. It was one of those days last week when it was real warm out.
I don't mess with them and was surprised to see it this early.
I think it was one of those greenish brown water snakes that will come hot when you get near them. It was one of those days last week when it was real warm out.
I don't mess with them and was surprised to see it this early.
Tomcat
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You were worried about the little snake but not Bigfoot watching you?
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No idea if they're here (south central Pa) or not (lotsa copperheads) but if someone wants to cull my mountain for rattlers have at it. I don't want my dogs to encounter these guys.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hWGwkZws48M
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hWGwkZws48M
tball
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Bsmtboy2
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Seen my fair share of moccasins here in Harford County when I was a kid. The arundel quarry was full of them back in the 70's when it was closed. My friends and I would take our pellet rifles and on a sunny day they would sit on open rocks and sun themselves, we would use them as target practice. Rock run had a 6 footer that made my dad drop his reel and get in the car and left me. He hated snakes.
Those weren't cottonmouths, they were just water snakes. It's wayyyyyyyyyyy too cold here for them to survive.
You won't find cottonmouths/moccasins any place that alligators can't survive. So unless you're also seeing 'gators, you aren't seeing moccasins.
You won't find cottonmouths/moccasins any place that alligators can't survive. So unless you're also seeing 'gators, you aren't seeing moccasins.
I found a nice Northern Water snake while running near the Patuxtent river last year. It had been hit by a car. I had to go back and take a picture. I was convinced it was a copperhead until I looked it up. It's really easy to misidentify a snake that you just caught a glimpse of.
joma352
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luckily copperheads and timber rattlers venom isnt very strong so even if you do get bit your survival chances are very high.
remodeler1
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They're there.
Vile Shadow
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- Feb 28, 2013
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Dunno ‘bout copperheads, but I want no parts of rattlesnakes. I’d rather be bit by a cobra.
Rattlesnake venom is disfigurin’.
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