snuffy
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Post by snuffy on Jun 10, 2016 21:01:34 GMT -5
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Sabre52
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Me and my gal, Rosie
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Post by Sabre52 on Jun 10, 2016 21:18:03 GMT -5
What the Hell Snuffy. Y'all build a snake feeding station, then ya kill the poor snake when he comes to the feeding station to do what snakes do. Now your friggin guilty twice. First for unnaturally concentrating the birds in a kill zone , then for killing the snake you baited in. Don't screw with mother nature if your so dang sensitive about the consequences of your actions. Human actions regarding messing with nature have consequences ya big dummy. What's next, ya gonna start butchering the bird eating hawks and owls attracted to your food source too?
Jeez this kind of crap pisses me off. You're like the dang cat crazies that put up a bird feeder to attract the pretty little birds and then have their friggin cats eat the birds when they come to feed. Again, what the Hell!.....Mel
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Post by Deleted on Jun 10, 2016 21:39:02 GMT -5
Dang Mel. Its just a ratsnake. He is just teaching the local population of ratsnakes that its better not to eat birds.
Snuffy, how did you whack that guy?
Or did a hawk do it for ya?
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rastageezer
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Post by rastageezer on Jun 11, 2016 1:35:50 GMT -5
I hate snakes. That photo made my skin crawl.
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jamesp
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Post by jamesp on Jun 11, 2016 3:12:49 GMT -5
Two poles side by side probably made it easier for the snake to climb. I suppose a flat collar up 5 feet would snake proof the poles. Black and Florida Rat snakes climb about anything. Right up the side of a tree, concrete wall, nothing to it. Bet he got wedged in the entry hole. Happens a lot with chicken wire. Scales help them to climb, prevent them from backing out of a hole too. Corn snake(a Rat snake) serious climbers. Seen them way up a tree. Corn snake a beauty, many varieties in stomping grounds Georgia to Florida. That snake gambling with a hawk climbing a pole out in the open  |
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Post by Garage Rocker on Jun 11, 2016 3:26:57 GMT -5
Now that's a predicament.
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snuffy
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Post by snuffy on Jun 11, 2016 7:40:53 GMT -5
The ratsnake pictured on the gourds was the first rat snake I've killed in the 15 years I've lived here.Wrong place,wrong time for me.I have close to a hundred nesting compartments of various kinds,and have gotten some different tenants over the years!    snuffy |
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Intheswamp
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Post by Intheswamp on Jun 11, 2016 7:56:04 GMT -5
Rat snakes can climb, climb, climb... A pole for a gourdrack...no problem, they'll simply wrap around it and up they go. Get smart and grease the pole...nope, doesn't work...they still can climb up it, they're just greasy snakes afterwards!!!! Very capable of climbing anything that they can reach....climbing through a tree is amazing...maybe not as quickly as a squirrel but a lot quicker than a cat!!!
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snuffy
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Post by snuffy on Jun 11, 2016 8:04:55 GMT -5
"Wrestling match" in my garden! A threesome when I first came across them!    snuffy |
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