WAHAMA90 Posted April 21, 2017 Share Posted April 21, 2017 These are the best of the bunch from a short trip right before high tide today. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
WAHAMA90 Posted April 21, 2017 Author Share Posted April 21, 2017 I went nose to nose with this friendly copperhead. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sixgill pete Posted April 21, 2017 Share Posted April 21, 2017 Great finds, the tooth on the top left is awesome. Your snake is not a copperhead, it looks like an eastern hog-nosed snake to me. 1 Bulldozers and dirt Bulldozers and dirt behind the trailer, my desert Them red clay piles are heaven on earth I get my rocks off, bulldozers and dirt Patterson Hood; Drive-By Truckers May 2016 May 2012 Aug 2013, May 2016, Apr 2020 Oct 2022 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Peat Burns Posted April 22, 2017 Share Posted April 22, 2017 Nice finds. Beautiful hognose snake, too (doing what hog nose snakes do best - *acting* tough ) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
WAHAMA90 Posted April 22, 2017 Author Share Posted April 22, 2017 I thought he was a weird color for a copperhead. I had never seen one before, and with the way his head was shaped he looked like a copperhead. I just researched them and wish I had known what he was at the time they seem like they would be fun to watch. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Nimravis Posted April 22, 2017 Share Posted April 22, 2017 Nice finds- cool snake. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Darktooth Posted April 22, 2017 Share Posted April 22, 2017 Wow an otodus and paleo! Pretty good day indeed! I like Trilo-butts and I cannot lie. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
I_gotta_rock Posted April 22, 2017 Share Posted April 22, 2017 Hognose snakes do their very best to look like other vipers. They have fangs, but the fangs point backwards into their mouths to pop inflated toads before swallowing them. They have hoods like cobras and will feign strikes with closed mouths. If that doesn't work, they pretend to have convulsions, roll over and play dead. If you turn them over, they roll back and return to the death pose. Cute, but not too bright! I refuse to give up my childish wonder at the world. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RCW3D Posted April 22, 2017 Share Posted April 22, 2017 Another Paleo!!! Dude, you have a lucky horseshoe hidden on you, don't you? Well done!!! Rob Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jeffrey P Posted April 22, 2017 Share Posted April 22, 2017 Really nice finds, including the hog-nose snake. Unfortunately they do resemble copperheads. A friend of mine once told me of a copperhead that was killed on her property. I went to examine it and sadly it turned out to be a hog-nose. By the way, that Otodus and the ray plate are nothing to sneeze at. Congratulations. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ludwigia Posted April 22, 2017 Share Posted April 22, 2017 8 hours ago, WAHAMA90 said: Nice finds. Looks like he's guarding the gastropods. Ever take any of those home with you? 1 Greetings from the Lake of Constance. Roger http://www.steinkern.de/ Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jeffrey P Posted April 22, 2017 Share Posted April 22, 2017 13 hours ago, Ludwigia said: Nice finds. Looks like he's guarding the gastropods. Ever take any of those home with you? Would you like me to bring you one? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ludwigia Posted April 22, 2017 Share Posted April 22, 2017 6 minutes ago, Jeffrey P said: Would you like me to bring you one? I meant the gastropods Greetings from the Lake of Constance. Roger http://www.steinkern.de/ Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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