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    Posted: 12 Apr 2018 at 3:41pm
We have discussed snakes before. As the weather warms Jake is out. I was replanting a grass plant in my shrub garden today and as I reached for the removed plant, there was Mr. Copperhead coiled. I must have disturbed him with digging and moving plants. Copperheads are #1 source of non fatal snake bites in TN, they are also protected. I gave him a pass and moved on, but keenly aware he's there.
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Direct Link To This Post Posted: 12 Apr 2018 at 4:24pm
I'm glad you have a mature attitude towards snakes. 

Copperheads hang out around wood piles etc because they eat the mice that hide there. I wouldn't want to put my hand on one, but in my (limited) experience, they are not at all aggressive and only want to be left alone.

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Direct Link To This Post Posted: 12 Apr 2018 at 4:33pm
My Copperheads hang out on the asphalt driveway, the flower beds, around my rock walls and any where they want to, mostly where they can attack small rodents, like chipmunks. They love holes and rocks with tunnels. I have never seen a North American viper other than a Water Moccasin that was aggressive, they can sense size. But they will strike especially while shedding to protect themselves. A coiled viper is in strike mode. Stretched out they are trying to hide.
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Direct Link To This Post Posted: 12 Apr 2018 at 5:00pm

I saw my first snake of the year today. Unfortunately for the snake, he was in the talons of a red-tail hawk at about 30 feet and climbing. (It was about noon-ish/lunch time.) Hard to tell what it was, at a distance. Maybe a black rat snake.

We have copperheads in Indiana - mainly in a swath between Turkey Run State Park and Brown County State Park. Sightings are not uncommon in the Taylor Ridge campground at Brown Co. Bites are rare, however.





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Direct Link To This Post Posted: 12 Apr 2018 at 5:35pm
Have not seen any snakes yet.. but had a small tick running up my hand and wrist today while rolling around on the ground half under the Lance doing a mod..
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Direct Link To This Post Posted: 12 Apr 2018 at 5:40pm
Yeah Buddy, ticks are out too. Had one on me the other day. That and red wasps and drilling bees (carpenter bees) The fight is on:)
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Direct Link To This Post Posted: 12 Apr 2018 at 6:31pm
Hmm, guess I can't complain, all I had was a couple of snowballs thrown my way.
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Direct Link To This Post Posted: 12 Apr 2018 at 6:34pm
We saw a couple of ticks last night, but it's "not quite" warm enough for the snakes to be out; or so it seems. We were on a hike Sunday afternoon, and spotted a little 2' garter snake going into some low shrubs. That was 20-25 miles north of us & lower elevation. So it probably is not long before we start seeing them around here.
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Direct Link To This Post Posted: 12 Apr 2018 at 7:06pm
Still to cold here for snake and ticks, woke up to a dusting this morning.
We see a lot of snakes when we are down on Cape Hatteras ( Cotton mouths and rattle snakes)
See a few garter snake around Lyndonville. 
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Direct Link To This Post Posted: 13 Apr 2018 at 7:12am
Well we are going to be trading in our snake free snow and ice for a winter spent in the SE states next year.
We don't have anything up here bigger than garter snakes.

Snakes are one of the issues. Personally if they leave me alone I'm willing to leave them alone.

But I've had a confrontation with a water Moccasin and did not care for the experience. Did not help that I only had a blank pistol starter gun to defend myself. I spent a winter helping a trainer work with 12 black labs, a golden and a Chesapeake.

Was a great experience and has me wanting to go back and revisit some of those areas. Like Blackwater SP.
And the endless beach between Fort Walton and Pensacola.

The bigger issue is likely to be bugs. Thankfully I don't mind killing them.
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