Snakes, Snakes, and Snakes! Oh my!
Snake #1
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| The first snake we saw here...October 2014 and yes, that is a .22 bullet hole in it's head. |
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| 4-foot long diamond back rattle snake. This is one of six kinds of venomous snakes found in Georgia. |
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| Saw it sliding across the yard - over 100 feet away! Chris shot it with a 22. |
Snake #2
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| Black Rat Snake my son saw under a chair on the patio last November. |
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| I think the "kinky" position is a form of protection or ready to strike or flee? He was relocated. |
Snake #3
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| April 2015: Eastern King Snake. This type of non-venomous snake eats poisonous snakes including rattlers, as well as rodents, frogs, and birds. This is a good snake to have around a country farm. |
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| Slithered right up to the pavement next to the pool! There are about 43 varieties of non-venomous snakes in Georgia. All non-poisonous snakes are protected and it is actually illegal to kill, harm, or trap non-venomous snakes. |
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| Chief Farmhand Chris led the snake back to the woods where it could live in happy snakedom. |
Snake #4
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| May 2015: This little snake peeked out of a small hole in the brick mortar of our porch steps. The dogs were napping. |
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| More than five-feet of snake unrolled from this little hole. Upon intervention, the snake darted like lightening out of the fence, under the canoe, then off into the woods. We are still unsure of the type of snake, it may be a green rat snake? |
Snake #5
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| May 2015: This snake startled the dogs and me during a walk. We heard leaves rustling (thought it was a squirrel) then saw this snake JUMP from the ground straight up into the tree. It was over my head, so I guess it got up to a branch 8 or 9 feet from the ground. After an initial moment of shock and fear, I ran back to the house to get my camera. Can you see the snake hanging across the tree limbs? Look dead center then slightly lower. |
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| I have no idea what kind of snake this is as this was the best view I got of it. We were near the water, do cottonmouths or water moccasins jump? My best guess is that this snake was 6 to 8 feet long. Maybe longer. I'm a little nervous about what's over my head in the woods now. It's hard to watch the ground and the sky at the same time. |
We've seen many others both living and killed in and around the woods, fields, and yard at our homestead. The majority of snakes you may find are NOT poisonous and are usually good predators that eat poisonous snakes, rats, mice, and other rodents (like rabbits that would eat all my garden lettuce) and it's illegal to kill non-venomous snakes in Georgia so relocation is best for you and the snake.
