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July 26th, 2020, 07:02 PM
#4901
Caught?
No. Saw 5-6 separate Mojave Greens in the past several weeks. We avoided them because they are best avoided and we were 1.5 hours from town. Fortunately, we seemed to usually stumble across them when they had visible bulges from feeding and the dogs never ran into them.
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July 27th, 2020, 06:21 AM
#4902
High Plains Luddite
Well, I suppose caught might not have been the best word, but it seemed funny at the time.
I don't know what kind of snake that was, but there are signs all over these trails warning of rattlesnakes. I think that snake might have been dead. It looked okay, but it didn't move at all in the perhaps thirty seconds after I passed, stopped, took a picture, and then got the heck outta there. Seems like a live snake would have heard me coming and moved into the tall grass or wherever they hang out, but I'm no herpetologist.
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July 27th, 2020, 02:18 PM
#4903
Might be dead, might not be. Some snakes will just freeze in place if they aren't interested in trouble, other take off if they think you're too big, some will coil and rattle to scare you off, and the worst ones just coil and bite without warning. Where most people get into trouble is when they're attempting to shoo them off with a stick or something.
Having been bit a few times, I try to ignore and not to mess with them if they're around and unavoidable - Here are some of the copperheads which seemed to enjoy hanging out near my total station set up in the mornings at the site I was working in June. We managed to co-exist fairly well and keep the local rodents from getting into our equipment over night.
Not pictured: The very large (>5ft) western diamondback which decided to hang out right at the mouth of the tunnel we used to access the site on the next-to-last day of the dig and startled one of our field techs so hard she jumped in the creek
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July 27th, 2020, 06:02 PM
#4904
Subaru Unimpreza
Begins thinking of Steve Earle...
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July 27th, 2020, 09:27 PM
#4905
High Plains Luddite
...and Samuel L. Jackson...
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August 15th, 2020, 05:08 PM
#4906
Senior Member
Last edited by G'day Mate; August 15th, 2020 at 05:10 PM.
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August 15th, 2020, 05:33 PM
#4907
Jedi
Something tells me I don't want to watch that.
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August 15th, 2020, 06:38 PM
#4908
Good lord, and didn't someone get left-hooked by an idiot driving on the course as well?
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August 16th, 2020, 01:21 AM
#4909
Senior Member
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August 16th, 2020, 01:22 AM
#4910
Senior Member
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