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May 20, 2006 21:06 as a reply to @ post 1529962 | #16

tpetty wrote:
Thanks everyone. Doug, thanks for those images - mine is definitely is not a blue racer. Wiselion, be glad my wife didnt read your post! Kraig, yours seems to make the most sense so far. Thanks for the compliment Dimitri, Brian and Digital. I didnt know garters got that big!! . PS Wise, I am in Texas not Michigan, but I',m sure the Michiganders will forgive you!!

What a moron I am.I must of saw another avatar with Michigan in it. Oh, I really meant Texas . But please, you guys might as well have Fierce snakes there you have every other venomous kind......

Oh it was Wireburns avatar. Yeah I heard they were both in Texas and Michigan.

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May 20, 2006 21:12 | #17

If that stared in at my window at work me thinks it would be time for a different job!!!
p.s. I live in canada if we get to see a snake its a garter not that big.

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May 20, 2006 21:14 as a reply to @ FREEZE's post | #18

FREEZE wrote:
If that stared in at my window at work me thinks it would be time for a different job!!!
p.s. I live in canada if we get to see a snake its a garter not that big.

No problem with me. I think I 'll head to Manitoba.

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May 21, 2006 05:00 as a reply to @ post 1530220 | #19

Mao wrote:
Where do you work at??? Nice shots!!

This one was right outside my home office window.

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May 21, 2006 05:01 as a reply to @ wiselion's post | #20

wiselion wrote:
What a moron I am.I must of saw another avatar with Michigan in it. Oh, I really meant Texas

. But please, you guys might as well have Fierce snakes there you have every other venomous kind......

Oh it was Wireburns avatar. Yeah I heard they were both in Texas and Michigan.

we all look alike!

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May 21, 2006 05:03 as a reply to @ post 1530072 | #21

TammieO wrote:
Don't know what kind of snake it is, but you got a nice shot of it. Personally, I would not have used the 100mm macro. I would use a much longer lens so I could stand way, way far away. You are much braver than I am!

Had it been a spider, I would have had to have an extender!!

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May 21, 2006 05:05 as a reply to @ post 1530896 | #22

ladybelle2k wrote:
Hi Trent,

It looks to me to be a racer. There are various colors of them around here and the old timers also call them "coachwhips". I've seen the black and silver ones out my way.

I used to see those in west Texas growing up. They probably look alike in the face, but I think if you could see the whole body you'd think he wasnt long and skinny enought for a coachwhip. Plus, what I remember aboutt them is they have nasty tempers! This guy you could pet. Thanks for responding!

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May 21, 2006 05:09 as a reply to @ post 1531048 | #23

dancinec wrote:
Two very nice captures of a rat snake. Well done.

Thanks Dennis. You and Kraig sound like you know your snakes! Interestingly enough, I had to kill a 5 ft ratsnake in the chicken house a couple of weeks back that was much lighter in color. I guess I live in ratsnake central!

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May 30, 2006 01:12 as a reply to @ Lahori paa jee's post | #25

:lol:

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Its a black mamba...

The closest thing to a black mamba around here is a video of the Croc Fighter. I try to keep at least one ocean between black mambas and me!

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May 30, 2006 01:57 | #26

I believe it to be a young Texas Indigo (Drymarchon corais erebennus), Due to the presence of a blue-gray color along the margin between the dark top-side and the white under-side. These snakes are highly protected by state law and a real rareity to see. Nice capture.

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