Posted: 7/16/2009 6:34:34 PM EDT
Is this a bull snake?
The little bugger likes eggs. |
| OP-yes, it's a bullsnake as others have said. never seen one with color quite like that one though, most I have seen have a more yellowish tint-how big is that one? Biggest I've seen was a near-6 footer at the base of Devils Tower a couple years ago. I did hear that one almost 9 feet long was killed in TX several years ago though. |
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OP-yes, it's a bullsnake as others have said. never seen one with color quite like that one though, most I have seen have a more yellowish tint-how big is that one? Biggest I've seen was a near-6 footer at the base of Devils Tower a couple years ago. I did hear that one almost 9 feet long was killed in TX several years ago though. This guy is around 3+ feet long, He has a sibling around that we don't see too often that is a little over 6. That one has graduated from eggs to the occasional immature chukar or pheasant. I leave them be since they don't go on killing orgies and I never see mice or rats around, though that could be the birds. I'm not too sure that a rat would find a pen with a hundred pheasant hens too friendly an environment. |
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OP-yes, it's a bullsnake as others have said. never seen one with color quite like that one though, most I have seen have a more yellowish tint-how big is that one? Biggest I've seen was a near-6 footer at the base of Devils Tower a couple years ago. I did hear that one almost 9 feet long was killed in TX several years ago though. This guy is around 3+ feet long, He has a sibling around that we don't see too often that is a little over 6. That one has graduated from eggs to the occasional immature chukar or pheasant. I leave them be since they don't go on killing orgies and I never see mice or rats around, though that could be the birds. I'm not too sure that a rat would find a pen with a hundred pheasant hens too friendly an environment. decent size-good going for not killing it. When I saw the big guy at Devils Tower it had already been mistaken for a rattlesnake by one person. I went to where she said it was(never seen a wild rattler before and want to). Saw it, I got confused and thought I was looking at a prairie rattler and realised what it was. I never realized how similar bullsnakes are to rattlesnakes until seeing one in "rattlesnake territory". That particular one had the best coloration I'd seen on one as well, too bad it was in a place where I couldn't catch it without being arrested. It was a known snake at the Tower based on what I was told by a worker there, and was seen by that same rock very frequently. |