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Title: Blue eyed snake
Post by: boneaddict on January 14, 2012, 11:53:44 AM: Going through pics from last year. This one struck me as odd. Really is it blue?
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Title: Re: Blue eyed snake
Post by: boneaddict on January 14, 2012, 11:54:48 AM: must have been damaged or something......
Title: Re: Blue eyed snake
Post by: Fowlweather25 on January 14, 2012, 11:56:03 AM: Awesome pic! Looks clouded over like he might be fixin to shed! Most snakes eyes get that wierd cloudy blue looking eyes when they're getting ready to shed.
Title: Re: Blue eyed snake
Post by: boneaddict on January 14, 2012, 11:57:28 AM: Could be. He was a little snapper. Probably going for his 3rd button.
Title: Re: Blue eyed snake
Post by: Fowlweather25 on January 14, 2012, 12:00:49 PM: Sweet! We got into a big den of them in the spring of 08 just off of 97 north of Omsk near riverside! We got something like 200 snakes! One of which had 15 buttons and was about 5 feet long! :yike: :yike: came for my crotch and caught a 20 ga to the head! We saw 2 scorpions up the too! Bout an inch long and yellow!
Title: Re: Blue eyed snake
Post by: boneaddict on January 14, 2012, 12:32:00 PM: The big ones were missing from this den this year. Not sure where they went. Might have just been a timing thing. I have a couple dens up north I want to photograph.
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Post by: CoryTDF on January 14, 2012, 12:39:22 PM: pretty cool. 8)
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Post by: DUCKDUDE on January 14, 2012, 01:10:57 PM: Yeah I have raised snakes nad he is definetly getting ready to shed.
Title: Re: Blue eyed snake
Post by: boneaddict on January 14, 2012, 01:21:18 PM: Cool.
Title: Re: Blue eyed snake
Post by: wraithen on January 15, 2012, 11:06:53 PM: Careful when they look like that. They are extra ornery since they can't see so well.
Title: Re: Blue eyed snake
Post by: Arteman on January 16, 2012, 12:03:25 AM: Quote from: boneaddict on January 14, 2012, 12:32:00 PM
The big ones were missing from this den this year. Not sure where they went. Might have just been a timing thing. I have a couple dens up north I want to photograph.
That's crazy, how close you get to those guys when taking pics. Id be on edge the whole time! Very cool photos though.
Title: Re: Blue eyed snake
Post by: boneaddict on January 16, 2012, 06:46:52 AM: Sometimes inches Artman. I'm standing in the middle of them.
Title: Re: Blue eyed snake
Post by: nwwanderer on January 16, 2012, 09:40:43 AM: That little snapper part should be noted and respected.