Look at the picture I took yesterday!!

[andromedaslove]

Yesterday as I was walking around my yard looking at my hibiscus, I noticed this little guy in one of my flower beds. I called inside the house for DH to bring me my camera, so I could snap a picture. He of course willingly abliged, and brought me my camera along with a shovel!! Neither one of us knew what kind of snake it was until I used the pics I took to do some research today. Lo and behold.... it was a dusky pigmy rattlesnake!! Yay Me!!

 

[Furgus]

Wow! Hope you were at the long end of your lens

 

[jann1033]

yikes a rattlesnake and a spider in the same photo

 

[Master Mason]

boy you all are making FL look so wonderful, snakes and large spiders showing up in your back yards etc....

Who's gonna post the aligator in their pool photo, just to compleate the sales job??

 

[andromedaslove]

I could easily walk out my back gate right now, and take a picture of the alligator who lives in the pond behind the house. Last summer it would crawl through the drainage pipes in the pond and hang out under the grate in front of our driveway. I would literally have to walk about 2 foot over the gators head to get the mail every day!!

 

[tpayne]

EEEEWWWW It looks furry.

 

[ukcatfan]

boy you all are making FL look so wonderful, snakes and large spiders showing up in your back yards etc....

Who's gonna post the aligator in their pool photo, just to compleate the sales job??

We have some wild and dangerous animals down here, but ask 0bli0 about the animals down under. They have got some super dangerous creatures over there.

Kevin

 

[Master Mason]

We have some wild and dangerous animals down here, but ask 0bli0 about the animals down under. They have got some super dangerous creatures over there.

Kevin

It's not the fact that you have them, we have dangerous animals around here too, snakes spiders, mountain lions... but they don't come visiting in your yards too often

 

[LMarge]

And I wigged out over a mouse in my basement!!!

 

[DVC Jen]

You are one brave woman!

 

[Virgo10]

As much as I love snakes, I too would have dispatched that snake to snakey heaven. Pygmy Rattlers are really dangerous.

Now these guys are our friends.

We had four of these black racers out in our backyard last week. They were, umm, having a love in.

 

[tinksdad]

Very Cool!! Nice job!

 

[pixie dust 112]

 

[Dan Murphy]

 

[AZ JazzyJ]

Go Diamondbacks!

(Oh come on, am I the only one that thought of a baseball reference for this photo?)

Jeff

 

[Sha]

yikes a rattlesnake and a spider in the same photo

Im "not" a fan of spiders.... and the black racers that Virgo10 showed, no big deal... that snake that Adromedaslove shot... would be a dead snake! They dont have big mouths, so cant really hurt a human unless you dont have shoes on... but will kill your pet fast and painfully.

Go Diamondbacks!
(Oh come on, am I the only one that thought of a baseball reference for this photo?)
Jeff

Not the only one who thought that Jeff

 

[0bli0]

fantastic capture. i love the contrast of the b&w pattern with the browns.
it's a good thing DH was there to grab the camera. Karma generally dictates if you must leave the scene to get the photo of something like that, the subject vanishes like Kaiser Soze...

poisonous snakes? we do get them here. since i live in Frenchs Forest (yes, that's the spelling), we get brown snakes - usually in beds of decomposing gum bark and leaves. fortunately, they're only the second most poisonous snake in the world. we don't get inland taipans (aka fierce snake) here in nsw....

 

[DukeStreetKing]

I had one of those in my house when I lived in Palm Coast. Got the shovel, then I had two halves. I don't usually like killing things but once they are in the house, all bets are off.