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doctor_octopus said:
Northern Watersnake. Haw River at Bynum on my lunch break today.
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I know that is a Northern Water Snake. And even if I didn't, I would accept as true your representation that it was a Northern Water Snake. But, if I had been in your position and even if I was taking this shot with a 1,000 mm telescopic lens on a tripod, then I would have run away like a six-year-old boy, screaming at the top of my lungs, "COPPERHEAD!" That just how I roll.
ETA: Copperhead vs Northern Water Snake | Nature Watch
 
05C40 said:
I know that is a Northern Water Snake. And even if I didn't, I would accept as true your representation that it was a Northern Water Snake. But, if I had been in your position and even if I was taking this shot with a 1,000 mm telescopic lens on a tripod, then I would have run away like a six-year-old boy, screaming at the top of my lungs, "COPPERHEAD!" That just how I roll.
ETA: Copperhead vs Northern Water Snake | Nature Watch
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Memorize what a real copperhead looks like. If you live in the Triangle or Triad, it's literally the only snake you need to know. If it's not exactly that, it's harmless. That being said, if you stay more than three feet away, all snakes are completely harmless*.

*Unless it's a spitting cobra.
 
doctor_octopus said:
. . ., if you stay more than three feet away, all snakes are completely harmless*. . . ..
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The above is pretty much the only part of your post I read. If I ever go anywhere that spitting cobras inhabit, I'll go back and read your last sentence. Also, I sure there is some "Florida Man" who has tired of keeping his momma and papa spitting cobras as pets and is getting ready to turn them loose in the Everglades so they can live their best lives. Probably singing "Born Free" as he flings them into the swamp.
 
05C40 said:
The above is pretty much the only part of your post I read. If I ever go anywhere that spitting cobras inhabit, I'll go back and read your last sentence. Also, I sure there is some "Florida Man" who has tired of keeping his momma and papa spitting cobras as pets and is getting ready to turn them loose in the Everglades so they can live their best lives. Probably singing "Born Free" as he flings them into the swamp.
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*looks around nervously* ha. Ha. Haha. Yeah.
*backs toward the door* Yeah... Some... Guy.
*Fidgets*
*laughs nervously again* Defintiely NOT me! HAhahahahah.
*Runs through the door off into the swamp*
 
When I was in basic training at Ft. Jackson, SC, a bunch of us Southerners were shooting the breeze, and the conversation inevitably turned to snakes. And another trainee, from Boston and with a thick Boston accent, said, "What is with you guys from the South? You can't talk for more than five minutes without the conversation turning to snakes." I replied that he should wait until after we completed our field training out in the South Carolina piney woods and then ask us why snakes were such a frequent topic of conversation.
 
05C40 said:
I know that is a Northern Water Snake. And even if I didn't, I would accept as true your representation that it was a Northern Water Snake. But, if I had been in your position and even if I was taking this shot with a 1,000 mm telescopic lens on a tripod, then I would have run away like a six-year-old boy, screaming at the top of my lungs, "COPPERHEAD!" That just how I roll.
ETA: Copperhead vs Northern Water Snake | Nature Watch
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like I said earlier in the thread - there's not a telephoto lens big enough for me to take that photo.
 
05C40 said:
I know that is a Northern Water Snake. And even if I didn't, I would accept as true your representation that it was a Northern Water Snake. But, if I had been in your position and even if I was taking this shot with a 1,000 mm telescopic lens on a tripod, then I would have run away like a six-year-old boy, screaming at the top of my lungs, "COPPERHEAD!" That just how I roll.
ETA: Copperhead vs Northern Water Snake | Nature Watch
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Thanks for the link. It's interesting the difference in the shape of their heads.
 
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