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Pituophis catenifer catenifer
This snake can hardly be seen since it blends with the background. I saw two snakes at 8.00 in the morning today. They were probably out trying to sun bathe. Each snake was about 4 ft. I saw this snake wrestling with the other , at the side of the pond. I watched fascinated!!!! They were either mating or there was a territorial dispute. They slithered on to the bridge which i had just crossed! One fell into the pond while the one seen slithered away into the grass!! A man walking by ,being a little braver ,went near to check the tail. His conclusion was that it was not a rattle snake but could be a gopher snake. While the gopher snake is harmless, i just saw a picture of my daughter's friend being bit by it yesterday. She was practicing on the soccer field when that happened.
Lat: 36.70, Long: -118.76
Spotted on Jun 13, 2012
Submitted on Jun 13, 2012
6 Comments
Thanks for the feed back Janet. I do agree with that.
From the description it sound more like a gopher snake. GS tend to slither away and rattlesnakes sometimes feel threatened and will coil up. If it didn't have a rattle and it was narrow most of it's length it's most likely a gopher snake.
first :)
-i'am a dreamer(but i'am not the only one,as us to say jhon lenon:) i know it,but i trie to build them:)it's the list i can do :)
second:)
-i'am sure of that Emma,in the future i have to go there without the dogs and stay uncovered for a few hours or so,in the center of the weet meadow there are a permanent weet zone,where to go i need big water fisher boots,i think there the most unacessed place i'll found snakes:) thanks for your comments Emma
Antonio, the wheat fields must be having snakes. hey are probably hiding. We have snakes ,frogs ,cricket etc,but all of them are elusive. i actually saw a cricket only once in all these years. In the evening we can here the choral singing of frogs,but never really saw one! in all these years this is the first time i actually saw two huge snakes for a good 10 minutes! Usually I get a glimpse and they are gone!
Wow ,sounds awesome!!
wow,what a cache,great morning begining,here snakes are rare to se,thgere water snakes in the area but i never saw one,i know because people talk about and the guide books tell me that.in teh north in Peneda Geres National Park,there are two kind of viper's and those are venon,can kill if dont administrst antidote,i saw several in 70\80\90 camping periods pasted there ,but i never been able to take photos,i know that after that date people hunt them for selling for the antidote and they survive only in the most remote areas of the park,i hope to have time to make a blitzz mission to the PN national park before the end of the year,it's the only national park we have and have only a few spottings made in the village and the surrounds,my idea is to mgather 4 or 5 friends and take a representativ track true the mountain since the 1200m,it's easy,to go higther(1400,is the higther we have there) only with alpinist specialist,but to 1200 it allready good so we can se the altitude changes in the flora and in the other organisms,remember when you ask what the portuguese mission was about i tell you that i thougth that in a year we would have 100 people in portuguese mission(we have 80 now:)an then i could creat the second mission about Geres N.Park?well my porpouse continue this year is Gerês:) my long range aim(10 years:) is to have 1 mission for each protected area of Portugal,i'am a dreamer Emma :)