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jupiterboy
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Course please?
jupiterboy
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Lincoln Park NYS
EarthRocker
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An animal you just don't see every day right there. So pretty.
I had one fly across the hood of my car once while driving. I was doing about 45, and let me just tell you: when a peacock is in your windshield like that, you don't see anything but peacock. Almost wrecked my car...Thankfully, both human and bird survived unscathed.
Not me this time, but a friend of mine at one of our local courses, saw a rat snake climbing a pine tree:
The second photo's a little dark, but the snake's much higher:
Which makes me think that if it gets 60' high, its fingers lose their grip, and it falls onto my shoulders, I may need a time out.
The second photo's a little dark, but the snake's much higher:
Which makes me think that if it gets 60' high, its fingers lose their grip, and it falls onto my shoulders, I may need a time out.
Curtis_Valk
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I've seen a very large chicken snake go up a tree like that. Pretty impressive.
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That's gotta add dimension to the two meter rule.
Need
Great. That's just what I need. Something to make me nervous wearing a hat with a wide brim on solo rounds and something to keep my wussy friends from wanted to play wooded courses.
Great. That's just what I need. Something to make me nervous wearing a hat with a wide brim on solo rounds and something to keep my wussy friends from wanted to play wooded courses.
WotW
If you recall the original pre-Cruise "War of the Worlds" movie, that is what the aliens and alien ships sounded like.
If you recall the original pre-Cruise "War of the Worlds" movie, that is what the aliens and alien ships sounded like.
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Pretty amazing that it can climb a vertical surface.
I imagine it requires extremely rough bark for it's ventral scales to get the required grip to ascend it that manner.
They really like bird eggs.
I've seen some videos of rat snakes climbing amazing places. We have plenty of them at Stoney Hill, but I haven't seen any of those tricks from them; just over head-high in a small tree's the highest I've noticed them.
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At the risk of creeping you out... mebbe yer just not looking high enough.
Heheheh, yup. Years ago I saw a copperhead 35-40' up in an oak tree raiding a robin nest. And yup definitely copperhead. With small dogs I can't tolerate venomous serpents around the house. I've re-homed many alive, but this one wasn't a good candidate given his location.
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What's one more thing to be creeped out by?
Last year, a rat snake struck at me. It was a bluff strike, the result of my walking by tall grass while looking elsewhere. I noticed it mid-strike, and until my heart slowed down I thought I might be the last line in the coroner's year-end report ("Death by rat snake.......1").
So I guess I'll watch where I step, and just hope any snakes in the tree-tops have a good grip and don't come tumbling down.
Curiously, in 17 years at Stoney Hill we've seen about a dozen species of snakes....none venomous. I'm crediting the king snakes (though still watching my step).
On the other hand, a year or two ago black windows took up residence in the map & donation box.
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I bet that cut down on donations, and increased the number of disc golfers randomly wandering around the course.
Curtis_Valk
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If it's any encouragement, I was amazed at the number of copperhead bites our dachshund sustained (and survived) when I was growing up. As often as she got bit hunting and killing those things, I'm sure they were not all "dry bites".
