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Post by jamesp on Jun 5, 2013 16:28:53 GMT -5
Carnivorous plants are beginning to feed  Ants prroidge in the center:>Lady bug drops to the right.  Fire ants were angry and got me.  Carpenter bee better get out of there!  You ugly.Recently hatched common snapper  My wife does not do water snakes.Sorry snake.I wish she would'nt kill them.All others are fine w/her.They are similar to moccasins so she kills em.  She says she is not going to look at the belly to see if it is orange.Again,sorry she kills em.  A bueatiful bamboo-P.Babusoides var. 'Castillon'.It went to seed 20 years ago and died back in every country on earth.This is probably one of the biggest Castillon canes in the world.It will be common soon   And the final pic of the day-First asiatic lotus bloom and large leaf  Please enjoy.It was very hot out there. |
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Post by Deleted on Jun 5, 2013 17:02:20 GMT -5
Those are really great. Snapper probably 2012 hatchling, maybe 2013. Nice pic!
You are getting artistic with your images. Good work! LOve the perspectives on the bamboo. Every other node with matching color/pattern. I dont know why the bamboo needs reading glasses but, hell, Sell me some! I got reading glasses if it needs it!
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Post by Pat on Jun 6, 2013 15:30:17 GMT -5
Interesting. Your snapper is cute! Wonder if your plants would eat a live bryozoan....   |
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Post by Deleted on Jun 6, 2013 16:27:57 GMT -5
Please tell your wife I can understand. I would like to offer a word to the wise. A little snakey strategy if you will allow. Something like 95% of all venomous snake bite envenomations are what the physicians call "illegitimate". That is a legitimate bite is truly an accident after stopping on or sitting on the snake. Grabbing something else and accidentally getting bitten counts to. Legitimate = accident.
The bite stops being legitimate when the human "engages" the snake. That is tries to move, capture, kill, handle..... . That puts the snake in defensive mode and when you do that you can expect a bite, Your fault not nature's. Therefore illegitimate.
Leave it alone, stay away and nobody gets hurt. I'd truly feel bad if your bride got injured trying to kill a snake. Besides, she is killing non-venomous snakes because of what they look like. What would she do if she saw a REAL moccasin?
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Post by jamesp on Jun 6, 2013 18:54:43 GMT -5
If i cut a snake open and baby snakes come out is that a live bearer?And are moccsains live bearers?The county agent says we live in a no moccasin zone.I have yet to prove him wrong till maybe last year
She kills the snakes cause it is in our work area or in this case it had eaten most of her goldfish in the pond in the front yard.A creek 100 feet in front of house and one about 150 feet behind and they are always crossing our yard and getting her goldfish.You ever seen hogs attack a snake?
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Post by Deleted on Jun 6, 2013 23:17:31 GMT -5
If i cut a snake open and baby snakes come out is that a live bearer? yes, otherwise it would be eggs. Yes, but so are the water snakes. Nothing learned. I wonder why the extension agent would saw that? You have plenty of water (habitat), plenty of prey (food). I assume you have lots of frogs and fish, right? I definitely would not consider that UNLESS he knows they avoid a certain type of habitat and you were fortunate to buy into just that land. They are definitely a generalist, but even a generalist may avoid certain areas. I have seen moccasins, in lakes, ponds, rivers, and little tiny streams, and roads bordering these places too. I do not care a nit about the individual snakes. The species has a huge population so her few are nothing in the big picture. It is only her health I was worried about. If she is confident of her hunting prowess, then kill 'em all! Plus goldfish bill could get expensive! Nope, but I am sure they have zero fear of the venom. |
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Post by Deleted on Jun 6, 2013 23:21:11 GMT -5
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Post by jamesp on Jun 7, 2013 8:35:20 GMT -5
It is odd Scott.I collect plants from many locations within 20 miles of house.A few open pastures w/well grazed/fertilized wetlands producing great plant stock.I will see moccasins between 10-20 mile range.I have yet to see one in South Fulton county-a 10 mile radius.The county agaent says it is strange phenom and i agree.Yes,i have many frogs to attract.The decibels are way high at night,during rain,wind-the frogs are loud.1000's of water snakes-never a moccasin.And i way create habitat so if i kill thousands fo tadpoles or kill 30 snakes a year i have thousands more to replace.A bass grows to 3 pounds in 2 years in in my shallow lily ponds.Throw o frog in and it looks like pirannha fest.
I am often sitting in knee deep water collecting/harvesting.Sometimes 800 water lilies a day or 1000 cattails/sagittarias a day.Long days.In Florida it is 8 out of 10 snakes that surface around me while i am working are moccasins.I harvest w/a sharp 7 inch blade knife that is a cut off machette(special shape).I used to machette the head off when they surfaced at arms reach.Quit that when the head floated behind me and got between my right arm and chest and pricked me as it got squeeze between.It was just the sharp bone sticking out of the neck where he got severed.Thought the tooth pricked me.I had cut a couple of others off and the head sunk and i was worried about sticking my knee down on it and puncturing my waders and getting poisoned.The moccasins are bold,not paying attention to me but coming to my disturbance as i spook frogs and stir up food for minnows.They are not shy like water snakes.You are lucky to get within 20 feet of a water snake(like water turtles)they dive.
You are so right about getting bit-do not mess w/the snake!Get away.People do get bit when trying to catch/kill/handle.
A fisherman at Lake Jackson got his lure stuck in the alders so his buddy moved the boat toward shore to unsnag the lure and a huge moccasin nailed him on the jaw.He died in a few minutes.The snake had buried a fang into his jawbone and it broke off.Powerful delivery.Viper bite on the head is a real bad day.
Of all the snake places i have been-moccasins in Florida create the most dangerous and dense situation i have experienced.And it is always hot and they are quick.If walking,the winter is worst.Gators and snakes will not hardly get in the water when it is cold.They wait till afternoon when heat is max.Basking moccasins are so camo-ed and stubborn to move,but quick to strike.Easy to step on.Was arrowhead hunting on Lake Rodman FL and not looking.Walked within 4 feet of a basking gator about 11 AM.About 9 foot river gator.He never moved but i almost fell forward on him when bottom half started moving away faster than top half.Nasty black ass thing.
Snake bite is always the most threatening thing.That is my greatest fear.
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Post by Deleted on Jun 7, 2013 9:18:06 GMT -5
Snake bite is always the most threatening thing.That is my greatest fear. Fortunately for me, snakes are no worry. MY biggest worry is getting stuck in the mud and drowning after getting exhausted trying to free myself. Never hunt ducks alone at Salton Sea. That mud is tenacious and will suck you in place. |
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Post by jamesp on Jun 7, 2013 10:47:57 GMT -5
I have walked in mud so many years.May be part of the reason my ankles had to be fused.
I have had to go buy rope and pull employees out of wetland mitigation jobs stuck in mud.
Serious.Employees pulling my leg or using my own strenght out of mud and hyperextending my ankles.
If a Thai knee boxer wants to use his knees he should hike thru mud:>
Me and Candler(employee) have laughed and bombed wife with mud balls when she gets stuck haha.
So you go duck hunting-why are you not at risk of a bite?Salton Sea?Why is it called salt?
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Post by Deleted on Jun 7, 2013 12:47:12 GMT -5
So you go duck hunting-why are you not at risk of a bite?Salton Sea? Why is it called salt? is saltier than all oceans and most other salty lakes. Every year it gets saltier from water draining into the lake from surrounding areas. The lake is new (in a geologic sense). In 1905 the Colorado river flooded it's banks and poured into the below sea level basin that is now the lake. Fish were added and a sportfishing industry thrived for some time. Then all the fish died off species by species. As their tolerance to salt was reached, they perished. For decades the lake has been a victim of it's own fertility. In the winter, fish (only Tilapia now) breed and grow to produce enormous populations, then in the summer, the heat drops the oxygen levels so most of the fish die off. The stench can be smelled 100 miles sometimes. There is a tremendous area of fresh/brackish/alkali/salt marshes surrounding the south east end of the lake. In the winter half a million birds come and stay until spring. 30-50K snow geese, 150-200K ducks of many species, plus shore birds, pelicans, gazillians of cormorants. There are many notable and rare species that winter at Salton See, so the Audobon folks flock (pun intended) to the region December thru March. To me the "Least Tern" is the coolest rare wintering species. The mud in these natural or man made marshes is the stickiest sh\t this side of super glue. We don't get bit because we hunt in the winter when snakes sleep. I don't get bit during any season because I see the reptiles first. Ask Beefjello for corroboration of this claim. Snow Geese  Least Tern - 9" long  Oxygen Deprived Fish in summer - the greenies always wanna blame toxins, but these fish are thriving until the water heats up and the oxygen solubility crashes, suffocating these fish,.  |
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Post by Toad on Jun 7, 2013 15:05:56 GMT -5
Come on, the little snapper is cute (but that will change soon...)
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Post by bhiatt on Jun 7, 2013 15:06:36 GMT -5
dang, them carnivores are eating good. I would of never imagines there being so many ants in one plant. Prett cool photos.
When I was younger I went on a navy ship in Florida, it was actually one my grandpa served on and he went with us. It was like 50 years after he served and he remembered where everything was. It was pretty cool. He was on a few ships that went out of commission because of attacks. He was there when the Japanese attacked Pearl Harbor. My dad still has his records that the military sent to his mom saying that he was ok and that he was changing ships.
They had those venus fly traps for sale in the gift shop and one actually closed up on a fly. Coolest thing I seen. Never would of thought a plant could react like that. Like it had a brain or something. Mom wouldnt let me get one though.lol. Seen a big ol gator swimmin around the ship. First gator Id ever seen. The ship was located around some marsh.
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Post by jamesp on Jun 7, 2013 19:40:57 GMT -5
Wow.Salton Sea is worse than Death Valley.What a fast life cycle.Those are big talapia for 1 year fish.Must be lots of food.Smell from hell.What an amazing natural phenom Scott.I wonder what kind of rush/grass that is surviving in that harshness.And what are all those birds stopping there for.Just to rest?Food?Salt bath? Did you know?: In 1812, the most violent of a series of earthquakes near Missouri causes a so-called fluvial tsunami in the Mississippi River, actually making the river run backward for several hours. The series of tremors, which took place between December 1811 and March 1812, were the most powerful in the history of the United States. Brad,don't you live next to the Mississipi?This was thought to be the most powerful quake in human history... Read more- www.history.com/this-day-in-history/earthquake-causes-fluvial-tsunami-in-mississippiI wonder if you were at Jacksonville Naval Air Station Brad.My Dad met my Mom flying over water(he was fighter pilot).Saw her on the beach-Fernandina Beach FL.He flew on US Coral Seas.Imagine that,James conceived on a boat named after coral:> I think the Coral Seas(aircraft carrier) is retired and docked in Jax. |
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Post by bhiatt on Jun 8, 2013 10:27:11 GMT -5
yeah I live around 12 miles from the Mississippi River. Im directly east of downtown St Louis over here in the corn fields. Sitting on the biggest fault line and in tornado alley. Got best of both worlds.lol. Just last week there was a tornado that went through west st louis and made it over the river about 8 miles from me. Got pretty hairy for a minute. 4.5 inches of rain. I cant count how many times I have sat outside and seen the wall clouds and the storms barely missing. Looking up seeing the sky swirling around. Crazy stuff.
About 5 years ago now, there was a pretty good earthquake. Got woken up. Pitch black and thought someone was trying to break in the bedroom window. The window blinds were bangin on the window pretty loud. Had a few restless nights of sleep after that one. Felt like the house was jumpin off the foundation. Two things I hate the most are tornados and earthquakes.
Last year a neighbor that lives close to a quarter mile away had the trampoline end up on the side of the garage right next a window, didnt break it dont know how it didnt hit it. Folded the trampoline like a taco. Made it through a few yards somehow.
Did you hear about that baby in the recent Oklahoma tornado that was found 10 miles from its house, alive? Now thats wild!
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Post by jamesp on Jun 9, 2013 7:28:30 GMT -5
My little brother lived north of Memphis.I have seen the fields.Looks like an invitation for tornadoes for sure.He used to fish in the lake that was created by the 1812 earthquake.
I remember that earthquake.Easier to remember if you live close to it and know the history of your area!!
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