Snake on the woodpile

[DaleZ]

My first post with a picture so it's both a test and a post. Took the tarp off and saw this sucker on the wood last year. Startled at first but then grabbed the camera so I could find out if it was venomous or not. Turned out to be an eastern milksnake.

 

[iskiatomic]

Milk Snake or not................I hate snakes


KC

 

[Adios Pantalones]

cool. We get garter snakes a fair bit- when they get in the kiln pile they keep moving down as I use the wood. I keep thinking they'll get squished.

 

[bigtall]

Eastern milk is great on corn flakes, but you gotta be careful milking those things.

 

[wood spliter]

Milk Snake or not................I hate snakes


KC

I'm with you I just don't like snakes

 

[CALJREICH]

Whoa looks dangerous to me. I don't know if a camera would be the first thing I'd grab. Nice pic.
What happend to it? Did it just leave?

 

[btuser]

We get them all the time. The first time I saw a non-garter snake I freaked out. The milk snakes come in different colors and hues, so they almost all look different.

 

[woodchip]

I'd rather meet a snake out in my garden than some drunken yob with a knife out in the street......

 

[kenny chaos]

Glad it's a milksnake. At first I thought you said milkshake.

 

[buckstove]

A dead snake is a good snake.

 

[Backwoods Savage]

Here's one I found when I was moving some galvanized roofing. They look and sound dangerous but aren't. They will even shake their tail like a rattler.

 

[WOODplay]

A dead snake is a good snake.

Yes, Now where is that axe when you NEED one!

 

[mhearts]

Why are you standing so far away to take the picture. I can barely see the thing

 

[DaleZ]

I'm no snake lover myself, I tried to pick it up with a stick to throw it over the bank but it slithered off and got away. They look a lot like cottonmouths or water-moccasins from what I've read.

 

[esuitt]

Found little gartar snakes out in the garden and then this past summer our son had a 4 ft black rat snake in his room trying to crawl out the window. His room is on the 2nd floor! Still trying to figure how this thing got past the dogs.

 

[Adios Pantalones]

A dead snake is a good snake.

Yes, Now where is that axe when you NEED one!

I don't understand the need to kill harmless critters.

 

[jeromehdmc]

I have a friend that lives in the country. A few winters back he found a couple black snakes in the dug out "basement" and killed them. Right after that he was infested with field mice. Now he keeps any snakes he finds down there.