Snakes.

"Bill Baka" wrote in message
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This may sound totally off the wall but I almost got bit today trying to
do a good deed for a snake. As I was riding I noticed a snake on the road
and thought it was the usual road kill but noticed it was moving slightly.
I thought it may have been wounded and picked it up at the middle to get
it off the road and it suddenly came to life and wheeled around to bite
me, but a really fast drop and retract avoided that. It looked like a
rattler but had no rattles, although it was trying really hard to convince
me that it was, with a big display of hissing and posing. I finally used
the bike tire to nudge him off and he struck at the tire about 5 times
before giving up. At least when I came back he wasn't road kill. A little
further down I found another sunning on the edge of the road but when I
got close he just retreated into the brush. This one was also about 2 feet
long and had stripes so obviously not a rattler.
I wonder if trying to do a good deed for a snake is worth the trouble.
It just bugs me that so many get flattened on the street and snakes really
aren't that bad as they eat nuisance rodents.
I like snakes as curiosity items and have tried to catch real rattlers by
distracting them and grabbing them behind the head. I almost did it once
but my wife, who knows I am oblivious to danger like that, threw a rock at
it and scared it into striking and it almost got me, blowing the whole
trip and letting the snake get away. Why do I do this?

Adrenalin rush, plus I am non-allergic to any bites of any kind and had a
hospital with 5 minutes in the car (Mustang 5.0). I get out and do things.
Like I said 90 and a rest home is not for me so I have this inner
daredevil.

Does anybody else have nature interactions or just me.
I made some ducks unhappy last year by watching them up close and they
showed me what they thought of it by swimming across a drainage ditch.
When I came back they were by the road again and when they saw me swam
across again.
How unsocial.
Bill (nature boy) Baka

Good show Bill Baka! Now post something about spiders that will most likely
get a few hundred responses from the idiots, morons and imbeciles of RBM.
Hey, how about someone posting something about alligators too while we are
about it.

Regards,

Ed Dolan the Great - Minnesota
aka
Saint Edward the Great - Order of the Perpetual Sorrows - Minnesota