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1. How to Post Pictures on Black River Fossils Forums by ditchweezil
2. How to Post Pictures on Black River Fossils Forums by Daryl
I saw DW's post about the snakes at GMR. The same day I read that post I was out at a spot of mine that has long grass. I usally just walk in the grass looking at the dirt hills for teeth. The grasshoppers were jumping all over making their noise then I heard it, the unforgettable rattle. Yep rattle snake. I never got close enough to see it, it was in the grass and luckly for me I had stepped out of the grass to search a hill. That kinda put me in a mood of not wanting to hunt there anymore.
Another bad thing we got here is Garden spiders. They get to be like 4-5 inches big, black and yellow. I have been walking thru creeks and forget to look up and right at the last minute look up face to face with these nasty buggers. I have seen one kill a 6 inch lizard and wrap it up in its web for a snack.
And we got fire ants but who doesnt.....
Dangerous snake-wise, we have mostly copperheads and water mocassins. Even the little water mocassins are pretty agressive. Harmless snake-wise, during the late spring and most of the summer we almost always see small water snakes when we're out collecting.
Well, I encountered too some cottonmouths on my last trip to Florida. My friend and I were on our final day of fossilhunting and we did not see any snakes the 6 previous days. Scooping up the gravel from the river banks we encountered the first baby-watermoccasin. My friend stopped abrubtly and went a shore to calmdown a bit, unlucky for him there was another right on top of one of our bags, hahaha. I was stil scooping up the gravel, when we met the third one, after that one we started looking for another place although I did find a very nice Meg in this place.
Martijn
Until this year, I have only seen one or two poisonous snakes while out collecting. This year has really been active, it seems. In the water I saw two copperheads, then the one at GMR a few weeks ago. On one trip that I did not post because I didn't find anything, I was walking along a deep overgrown ditch in Summerville. I was looking on one side of the ditch when behind me I heard a hissing sound. I turned to find a 3 foot cottonmouth all coiled up showing me his mouth. They are nasty snakes! They don't retreat like most others - they stand their ground.
Martijn, what kinds of venemous snakes do you have where you live?
Hi Ditchweezil,
Here in Norway we have some vipers, but these can only be dangerous for young kids and old people. We don't encounter them while hunting for fossils, because you wil not find any in this part of Norway (actaully in 99% of Norway you will not find fossils) But these snakes we see sometimes when we are out in the forrest picking blueberries.
Fossilhunting I do often in Denmark (echinoids, crabs) and in the Netherlands and Belgium (sharksteeth, echinoids, etc) When I visit the Netherlands (I am Dutch myself, so still have familie and friends there) I always make sure to visit my fossil-buddy Paul.