Got me a copperhead

[GopherDaGold]

While mowing my elderly neighbors yard I inadvertently weed-whacked this guy almost in half. Before I finished it off to put it out of its misery I looked it up and discovered it was a young copperhead.
Felt better about ending him after that as my neighbor is deathly afraid of snakes and she doesn't get around very quickly.

 

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[EccentricInTexas]

Not a copperhead but it very well could of been on. I think that may be some kind of garter snake.

 

[smokeythecat]

Nope - snake was harmless. Copperheads have a more distinct pattern on them.

 

[A2coins]

I used to be on a Mobile Home set up crew in AZ talk about snakes and every other critter known to man Im not a snake fan myself.....

 

[DeepseekerADS]

Nope, not a copperhead.

I've first hand (or knee) knowledge. Was popped by one when I was 12.

 

[gunsil]

What a shame to see a harmless rodent eating snake killed. As stated above that is not a copperhead pattern and it has an oval head while all poisonous pit vipers in this country have very triangular heads. Doesn't matter if some folks are afraid of snakes, the one killed here was a beneficial snake to have around.

 

[Louie D]

Looks like a Dekay's Brown Snake, a harmless snake to people and pets.

 

[bowwinkles]

I was always taught to evaluate if the snake has a stubby tail and appears to be a little over weight for its length then take a close second look. Non poisonous snakes have a long skinny sharp pointed tails. Most pit vipers have a stubby nose and a wide head. Anyway use caution when approaching, we had a cobra loose in my area several years back that escaped his keepers tank but he was found and returned to his proper place.

North American brown snakes are widely distributed. They are common throughout the eastern half of the United States, though they do not venture into high elevations. They are also found in Southern Canada and northern Mexico, according to the University of Michigan’s Animal Diversity Web (ADW).

Brown snakes are sometimes referred to as “city snakes” because they thrive in residential areas. According to the Savannah River Ecology Laboratory, they are often the most common snakes found in urban areas. They spend time under urban debris — trash piles, construction materials, etc. — and other forms of ground cover, such as loose stones and flat rocks. When not in the city, brown snakes live in forests, scrub forests and marshes. Brown snakes are fairly abundant because of their ability to live in a wide variety of habitats.

 

[fyrffytr1]

I don't kill any snake on purpose but I believe GopherDaGold deserves a break. He said that he cut the snake with his weed eater, probably not seeing it in time. I have run over snakes with my riding lawn mower so I understand how something like this could have happened.

 

[A2coins]

I dont kill them either just dont like them most likely because Im not sure which ones are deadly and which are not

 

[GopherDaGold]

What a shame to see a harmless rodent eating snake killed. As stated above that is not a copperhead pattern and it has an oval head while all poisonous pit vipers in this country have very triangular heads. Doesn't matter if some folks are afraid of snakes, the one killed here was a beneficial snake to have around.

Not afraid myself.
Also, the snake got weed-whacked almost in half before I realized it was there.

 

[ticndig]

I caught this black snake in the hen house , or should I say he caught me. bit the crap out of my hand with me laughing the whole time.
I caught and relocated 6 last year to the back of the property. I know they eat the mice but they eat lots of eggs too!

this spring I've only seen one and it was on the bluff sunning it's self on a 36* morning.

 

[creskol]

That's a pretty one ticndig!

 

[A2coins]

Thats crazy

 

[Noah_D]

View attachment 1834168 I caught this black snake in the hen house , or should I say he caught me. bit the crap out of my hand with me laughing the whole time.
I caught and relocated 6 last year to the back of the property. I know they eat the mice but they eat lots of eggs too!

this spring I've only seen one and it was on the bluff sunning it's self on a 36* morning.

Nice one! I saw a big rat snake sitting in a tree one day when i was hiking here in Ohio. It was the first time I have ever seen a snake in a tree and he was sitting right on top of a goider... I poked at him once or twice and then he slithered on down in a hole in the tree. Haven't seen too many snakes other than that yet though.

 

[fyrffytr1]

This is a copperhead that I relocated about two years ago. It was in my daylily bed and I came about a foot from it as I was on my hands and knees weeding. It never offered to strike so I got my pitch fork and gently eased it to the woods next to my property.

 

[Mudflap]

Used to work on a Christmas tree farm and we mowed the rows between the trees. Lots of hawthorn bushes about 5-6 feet high. Saw a lot of black snakes and many times they were up in the hawthorn bushes at about 4 feet high. Walking an old rotary Gravely mower, that puts your head at the same height. Always got the crap scared out of me when I'd turn my head and be face to face with a big ole black snake.

 

[fyrffytr1]

When we first built the house we now live in there was a big black snake that layed out on the driveway in the evenings. My wife finally told me to get rid of it so I moved it out back. When we would burn the limb pile the snake would crawl up in a small bush between us and enjoy the fire.

 

[Edmundruffin]

One of my earliest childhood memories of a snake was going to grandmothers hen house to get eggs and seeing black snake - then called chicken snake- in one of the boxes eating an egg. The egg was past the snakes mouth and a few inched down the body. The snake coiled up in a ball and broke the egg. It the started to craw backward and puked out the egg shell. I ran to paw paw and told him to get his gun because a snake was in the hen house. He told me not to worry, the only reason "Eddie" was eating an egg is because he had ran out of mice around the house. Years later I ask grandmother why paw paw called the snake Eddie, she said he named him after your uncle Eddie. He was a sorry low down snake in the grass. Needless to say I was scared of the hen house.