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MikeA

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Well, it was just a matter of time. Be careful on the trails!!
« on: July 31, 2011, 07:52:57 PM »
I just knew I'd have a run in with one of these guys this year. Snakes have been out in greater numbers then I can remember in a long time. This little beauty was kind enough to pose for me while I took it's picture. Gota love Rattlers when you see them first... Not so much if you don't! My daughter got a good lesson on what a Timber Rattler sounds like when he's irritated (sounds a lot like a cicada). It was an amazing experience to share with her!










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Re: Well, it was just a matter of time. Be careful on the trails!!
« Reply #1 on: July 31, 2011, 08:13:01 PM »
Quote from: Mike Anderson on July 31, 2011, 07:52:57 PM
I just knew I'd have a run in with one of these guys this year. Snakes have been out in greater numbers then I can remember in a long time. This little beauty was kind enough to pose for me while I took it's picture. Gota love Rattlers when you see them first... Not so much if you don't!

So true...it's much harder to take beautiful pics like these if you don't see the snake first and then you have to change your pants.  I almost stepped on one of these beauties years ago hunting ginseng.  Luckily she was stretched out sunning and not coiled up like this one or it could have been a different story.  Thanks for sharing.
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Re: Well, it was just a matter of time. Be careful on the trails!!
« Reply #2 on: July 31, 2011, 08:23:32 PM »
In my experience with Rattlesnakes, granted it isn't that much, but so far they are pretty passive unless you just do something stupid. Once at Fall Creek Falls we found a monster laying across a trail to an overlook that we had passed just 5 min back. He was much larger then this guy but only had three or four rattles. Now that was scarey. He wouldn't move off the trail so we found a long stick and pushed him away. He never rattled or showed any kind of aggression towards us.

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« Reply #3 on: July 31, 2011, 10:46:41 PM »
It is amazing that anyone can take a photo this good, while shaking and peeing on themselves. Mike that is talent!
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Re: Well, it was just a matter of time. Be careful on the trails!!
« Reply #4 on: August 01, 2011, 07:27:59 AM »
Quote from: Luke Warmwater on July 31, 2011, 10:46:41 PM
It is amazing that anyone can take a photo this good, while shaking and peeing on themselves. Mike that is talent!

That's why i want a 600mm lens, i can shoot them from 2 miles away ;D

Good shot's Mime.

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Re: Well, it was just a matter of time. Be careful on the trails!!
« Reply #5 on: August 01, 2011, 08:19:05 AM »
Where did you run across the rattler?
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MikeA

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Re: Well, it was just a matter of time. Be careful on the trails!!
« Reply #6 on: August 01, 2011, 08:54:59 AM »
Near the Smith Fork. I mean Happy Hollow. Yea,, he was at happy Hollow along with a hundred or so of his buddies. Folks better stay away from that place!  ;D



Would love to come to your area and find a Copperhead sometime.
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« Reply #7 on: August 01, 2011, 09:13:13 AM »
Fall Creek Falls is the best place to find copperheads!
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Re: Well, it was just a matter of time. Be careful on the trails!!
« Reply #8 on: August 01, 2011, 09:32:10 AM »
cool pics...I'd love to see one..from a distance.  All I've ever run across (of the poisonous variety) were copperheads.
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Re: Well, it was just a matter of time. Be careful on the trails!!
« Reply #9 on: August 01, 2011, 10:08:21 AM »
My Mom got bit by a copperhead a few years ago. 

Need to ask Dan about the rattler they found above his house recently.
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MikeA

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Re: Well, it was just a matter of time. Be careful on the trails!!
« Reply #10 on: August 01, 2011, 10:53:55 AM »
Copperhead bites must be the most common in this area. I hear about them almost every year. Fortunately they are rarely fatal.
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« Reply #11 on: August 01, 2011, 10:56:01 AM »
Nice shots Mike. Ran across a huge timber rattler in the 90's in Percy Warner Park while mountain biking. I will never forget how freaked everyone got. Once he heard us, he headed back into the woods. He was on the trail sunning.
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