Speaking of snakes, my son and I caught a 2 foot long garter snake who was
living under a log in front of my apartment building.
http://www.chriscrawfordphoto.com/family-snapshots/snake
Unfortunately not shot with Olympus gear. I used my Nikon D70 and 50mm f1.4
AF-Nikkor.
My girlfriend and my son wanted to keep him as a pet, but I insisted we let
him go. The cats were drooling after we took him in the apartment, and when
I caught him he tried to bite me. I don't think he wanted to be a pet, and
he definitely didn't want to be cat food.
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Chris Crawford
Photography & Graphic Design
Fort Wayne, Indiana
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On 7/1/08 6:01 PM, "Chuck Norcutt" <chucknorcutt@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> Moccasins do sometimes crawl up on branches overhanging water but
> they're not likely to get very high or climb anything very steep.
> They're great swimmers but lousy tree climbers. You can easily tell a
> moccasin in the water as they are the only US water snake that lift
> their head out of the water while swimming.
>
> Chuck Norcutt
>
> Chris Barker wrote:
>> No joke, Chuck. I'm sure that there are loads of snakes in Florida,
>> but not much vegetation in which they might hide in Tampa or on the
>> beach at Fort de Soto. We did visit the inland parks, such as Crystal
>> River/Springs, but we generally avoided long grass.
>>
>> That visit entailed 2 encounters with snakes. As well as the one I
>> described this morning, my wife and 2 small sons were in a canoe on a
>> small river when they drifted into an overhanging tree. I was alerted
>> to excitement by their calls but went on reading my newspaper about 50
>> yards away ...
>>
>> ... it turned out that there had been a snake on one of the branches
>> of the overhanging tree and they got quite close to it. My wife had
>> the bright idea of knocking it off the branch, perhaps to drown it,
>> only to be seriously shocked that it swam towards her! We learned a
>> bit more about snakes from that; and I learned not to be reading a
>> newspaper when they were having "exciting" times :-)
>>
>> I was in sooo much pooh!
>>
>> Chris
>>
>> On 1 Jul 2008, at 11:57, Chuck Norcutt wrote:
>>
>>> Surely you're joking? There are four types of venomous snakes in the
>>> US: copperhead, rattlesnake, water moccasin and coral snake. All four
>>> are found in Florida although copperheads are only in the extreme
>>> north
>>> above Tallahassee. Copperheads cause more bites than any other type
>>> of
>>> venomous snake in the US but their bite is generally not too serious.
>>
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