On 2/18/2018 11:36 PM, Terry Coombs wrote:
On 2/18/2018 10:16 PM, Muggles wrote:
On 2/18/2018 8:40 PM, Terry Coombs wrote:
On 2/18/2018 3:43 PM, Frank wrote:
On 2/18/2018 4:23 PM, Terry Coombs wrote:
On 2/18/2018 11:00 AM, songbird wrote:
Muggles wrote:
...
It is a terra cotta colored plastic pot with holes in the bottom,
and
that plastic pot is sitting inside a metal decorative container
that has
no holes.

Geez ... I've purchased similar flowers dozens of times and never
ended
up with a baby snake.Â* Now, I'll have to check every one I want
to buy
for snakes!
Â*Â*Â* to me that would be a bonus.Â* i like snakes.Â*


Â*Â*Â* songbird
Â*Â*Â* Depends on what kind and where . Copperheads in the rose garden
get dead .

No problem with poisonous snakes here but my wife is deathly afraid of
them.
Â*Â* We're not particularly afraid of them , just think there are some
places they don't belong . It was pure chance that I didn't get bit
while cleaning up some leaves and clutter while building the deck .
He/it struck the piece of glass in my hand ... big'un too , over 30" .
That makes 3 in the last 5 years , another was in the wood pile , and
one in some firewood out in the orchard that I was moving to the
woodlot .

So, how do you go about checking leaves and woodpiles for snakes? Do you
have a 10foot pole?

Â* No , you just look carefully before you go sticking your hands in
there . Problem is that copperheads are damn near invisible when lying
still in a pile of leaves . I like to disturb leaves with a rake or
something before putting my hands near . On the occasion I almost got
bit I was picking up broken glass up next to the house , there were some
leaves blown up against the foundation . I saw the snake about the time
he hit the glass . The reason he was there is food . The bird seed
feeders are close by , and ground squirrels and other small critters
like to glean the seed the birds knock out on to the ground .

I sometimes had to go to a plant in North Carolina and coworker invited
me for dinner and showing property told me not to step off lawn into
adjacent field. Problem not only copperheads but ticks carrying Rocky
Mountain Spotted fever. Copperheads must not be too bad as another
coworker told me he had to take cats to vet several times because of
copperhead bites.

We are said to have a few around here in an isolated area but only
snakes I see a are black snakes and garter. Wife came running in
screaming off the deck last summer as sitting there she heard a sound at
the bottom a the deck and got up to see a big black snake caught in deer
netting. Deck was 10 ft and snake was captured but she ran.

I usually see one or two every summer and have had to release 3 large
black snakes tangled in the netting.