Re: Snakes.
- From: Bill Baka <bbaka@xxxxxxxx>
- Date: Sat, 15 Apr 2006 06:01:28 GMT
di wrote:
"Bill Baka" <bbaka@xxxxxxxx> wrote in message news:U3H%f.69634$dW3.15233@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxDitto,
This may sound totally off the wall but I almost got bit today trying to do a good deed for a snake. As I was riding I noticed a snake on the road and thought it was the usual road kill but noticed it was moving slightly. I thought it may have been wounded and picked it up at the middle to get it off the road and it suddenly came to life and wheeled around to bite me, but a really fast drop and retract avoided that. It looked like a rattler but had no rattles, although it was trying really hard to convince me that it was, with a big display of hissing and posing. I finally used the bike tire to nudge him off and he struck at the tire about 5 times before giving up. At least when I came back he wasn't road kill. A little further down I found another sunning on the edge of the road but when I got close he just retreated into the brush. This one was also about 2 feet long and had stripes so obviously not a rattler.
I wonder if trying to do a good deed for a snake is worth the trouble.
It just bugs me that so many get flattened on the street and snakes really aren't that bad as they eat nuisance rodents.
I like snakes as curiosity items and have tried to catch real rattlers by distracting them and grabbing them behind the head. I almost did it once but my wife, who knows I am oblivious to danger like that, threw a rock at it and scared it into striking and it almost got me, blowing the whole trip and letting the snake get away. Why do I do this?
Adrenalin rush, plus I am non-allergic to any bites of any kind and had a hospital with 5 minutes in the car (Mustang 5.0). I get out and do things. Like I said 90 and a rest home is not for me so I have this inner daredevil.
Does anybody else have nature interactions or just me.
I made some ducks unhappy last year by watching them up close and they showed me what they thought of it by swimming across a drainage ditch.
When I came back they were by the road again and when they saw me swam across again.
How unsocial.
Bill (nature boy) Baka
You saw a Bull Snake, or Gopher Snake for you Western People, harmless and kills it's prey by constricting and swallows it whole, doubt if it could swallow Bill. But, this thread is getting a lot of mileage. I would much rather get bit by a Rattlesnake than a Brown Recluse Spider.
My daughter apparently got bit somehow and has about a half inch permanent scar after almost a year. At least she did not get sick.
Their venom is actually worse than a rattlers, mg by mg.
It pretty well kills the flesh where it bites, yet they look so small.
During the day I was out I saw the 'fake' rattler and later another fairly big 2 foot snake with stripes going it's length. That one did not want to play 'I'm a rattler' but just meekly ran into the bushes.
Ran here equals slithered rapidly.
Bill Baka
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