We have lots of black snakes on the farm. One got into the chicken house
and ate the ceramic eggs I have in there to encourage the chickens to lay
in the nest boxes:
http://www.pbase.com/tinamanley/image/114007408
Here is a bigger one (my husband is 6'4"):
http://www.pbase.com/tinamanley/image/136525195
We let them both go in the pasture but I'm sure the egg-eating one died a
miserable death.
Tina
On Fri, Jun 29, 2012 at 10:18 PM, Joel Wilcox <jfwilcox@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> They are incredibly shy, hard to sneak up on, and wear bib overalls.
> Aside from harmless garter snakes, brown snakes appear on one day in
> spring and re-appear in fall. I rousted out a huge black snake last
> summer in Kentucky and a timber rattler, but I've never come across one
> in Iowa in all my years of crawling around in places I shouldn't be.
> This is friendliest place you ever saw, nature-wise.
>
> The young-ling brown snakes are cute as puppies. They'll rise up like a
> cobra and make to strike you, but there's nothing there. The adults
> just flee for their lives.
>
> Joel W.
>
> On Fri, Jun 29, 2012, at 08:44 PM, Chuck Norcutt wrote:
> > I've never previously investigated what type of venomous snakes are in
> > Iowa. It seems you have Copperheads and 4 species of rattler (Florida
> > only has 3 species). But the range maps say they're located near the
> > western and eastern borders and timber rattlers in maybe 1/4 to 1/3 of
> > the southern part of the state. Doesn't look like there's much to worry
> > about in central Iowa but it's probably wise not to walk around in waist
> > high grass in shorts and sandals. :-)
> >
> > Chuck Norcutt
>
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