Can you identify this snake? The first person to send in the correct answer gets a print of this photo singed by me.
Back in 1995, I had a chance to photograph a huge western diamondback out at the media day for the Rattlesnake Roundup in Sweetwater. This wasn’t part of the event but instead one of the snake handler’s personal snakes. One day I will blog about another event that occurred there that involved me unknowingly...
Does anyone remember Sea Arama? It was the awesome marine park at Galveston that was open from the 1950s-80s. We would go every summer and it had a tremendous impact on my interesting wildlife. My mom found this photo in her archives. That is me standing up on the left looking at the snake...
After I undoubtedly gave some of you a bad case of the creeps with the huge cottonmouth in the last blog I thought I would show you something beautiful in this one. Yes, it’s a snake but a gorgeous one. This is a speckled kingsnake I caught a couple of weeks ago. The colors...
The first person who properly identifies this snake wins one of the prints from my “Inspiration” outdoors photo series. This is not a domestic species and is highly venomous. Any takers?
Red and yellow a kill a fellow. Red and black venom lack. That is the poem I was taught as a kid to distinguish coral snakes from their mimics and although one should have more concrete proof than poetry before dealing with a potentially highly venomous snake, if repeated correctly it is accurate. Coral...
The copperhead bites more people in Texas than any other snake. Due to its ability to live around humans and extreme camouflage, people frequently encounter them. Thank goodness they do not deliver a huge dose of venom, however, they typically cause serious discomfort. Check out the video.
I have been writing a lot about snakes here lately, partly because I think they are fascinating but also because the response has been tremendous. I was doing a photo shoot for a new project with my friend Rob Ellis last weekend. I caught a huge yellowbelly water snake and as I posed it...
You guys are eating up the identify the snake blogs. The amount of page views are incredible so here’s another one for you. This snake is super bad and is from the Western Hemisphere.
