Canopy Roads of South Georgia

Yellow Dog and her snake

My snake!

Pictures by John S. Quarterman for Okra Paradise Farms, Lowndes County, Georgia, 11 October 2012.

The dogs barked up a storm while I was picking okra, and by the time I got there the snake was in sad shape. Too bad, as I keep explaining to Brown Dog and Yellow Dog, snakes eat mice.

-jsq

Black Snake

A snakey present from the dogs:

Picture by John S. Quarterman for Okra Paradise Farms, Lowndes County, Georgia, 14 September 2012.

I like snakes: they eat rodents, and I'm allergic to rodents. But the dogs don't like snakes that trespass on their area near the house. They left this one in the middle of the walkway from the house to the carport. You see it in the truck on the way to somewhere else.

I think Yellow Dog is nostalgic for her YouTube hit, Black Snake vs. Yellow Dog. They look mild-mannered, Yellow Dog and Brown Dog, but so far a beaver, a raccoon, several rattlesnakes, and two kinds of water moccassins have found tangling with the dogs is not a good idea.

Although that copperhead did give Yellow Dog a bit of a hangover. Here Yellow Dog thanks you for your concern.

-jsq

Snake in the wiregrass

Yes, Brown Dog and Yellow Dog found another hog-nosed snake. Hiding:

John S. Quarterman, Gretchen Quarterman, Brown Dog, Yellow Dog, Lowndes County, Georgia, 10 March 2012.
Pictures by John S. Quarterman for Okra Paradise Farms.

Boxed:

 

Snake in the oak leaves

Yellow Dog and Brown Dog pointing:

Pictures by John S. Quarterman for Okra Paradise Farms.

Can you see it there, between the wiregrass and the oak log?

 

Harmless snake in the grass, 7 September 2011

It's in the middle of this picture:

Here's a video.

Video by Gretchen Quarterman, Lowndes County, Georgia, 7 September 2011.

You can see its tail move.

Snake on a hoe

How I get the snake in the box:

I pick it up on a hoe. Most snakes it's more like raking them into the box with the hoe, but this one's playing dead:

What's in the fun box?

Well, that looks like fun!

Let's open it up and see:

Snake of the night

The dogs found this, about one foot from the house:

Yep, it's a timber rattler. You can't see the rattles in this picture (although you can in these other ones by Gretchen), but it had three.

So I put it in a box. It didn't like that: it really rattled. We drove it to a better spot in the woods, where it's very happy now.

Good dogs, Yellow Dog and Brown Dog! They notified us but did not try to bite the snake.

Pictures by John S. Quarterman and Gretchen Quarterman, Lowndes County, Georgia, 1 June 2011.

-jsq

Update 8:45 AM 3 July 2011: Fixed picture link and added link to flickr set with Gretchen's additional pictures.

Copperhead and little dogs

There was a copperhead in the dirt pit.

Brown Dog didn't get bit, but Yellow Dog did.

Corn snake

Gretchen was very amused to see me do the snake dance. This corn snake was lying in the path at the edge of the field, and I almost stepped on it. Probably it was sunning itself to get warm.

It's harmless, except to small rodents that live in corn fields. Elaphe guttata is a constrictor. This one was 3 or 4 feet long. They're native to the U.S. southeast from New Jersey to Texas. I did not know until that day that corn snakes can climb trees.

Here he is stretched out: