Went for a little ride and WOW! (DUW)

[Kara]

Well reason I think it may possibly be a copperhead is I read they have yellow tails when they are young. Im not sure tho was just a guess for me .

Not a bad guess, either. Both cottonmouths & copperheads are members of the genus Agkistrodon, so they're fairly closely related. Good eye & attention to detail there!

K~

[Sinsation]

Thanks for the info Judy . Gonna go look up more of those, they are so pretty.

[Kara]

Daniel...fantastic pics!!! Simply fantastic!! These bring back a lot of memories from my TX herping days. Nice find in the field, and beautiful photos to capture the moment. Thanks for sharing them with the rest of us.

[daniel1983]

Thanks all!

Here is another pic....not one of the best....but you get to see how much of a chunker this one was....definately one of the fattest baby cottonmouths that I have ever seen....life must be good in the swamp this year

[Pork Chops N' Corn Bread]

Nice shots!! I love how in that last pic he looks all fat. That tail is so cute. When you said you moved him off the road and on the shoulder I almost had a heart attack!!! I though you meant you put him on your shoulder!! j/k of course

[Shaun J]

The last one made my spine tingle for some reason...

I was under the impression that Cottonmouths were a dark green? Lol. I have no idea why...

[aaajohnson]

Great pics Daniel.
Was he pretty calm for you? We ran into a little one like that in Arkansas while fishing and he was fiesty. We did not have a camera with us, but I don't think we could have got anywhere near that close!!!!

Neil

[Freakie_frog]

The last one made my spine tingle for some reason...

I was under the impression that Cottonmouths were a dark green? Lol. I have no idea why...

Cottonmouths turn almost black in the winter and the summer due to their habbitat. Because of when they hach out in the fall they are colored the same as the leaf litter. And yea they are just as deadly as mom or dad.

Great Pics Daniel. I will have to get some of mine up I got them of coach whips, rat snakes, rattlers and even the odd smooth earth snake.. LOL

This is a dark one http://spectrum.troy.edu/~diamond/Fi...ottonmouth.jpg

this is a light one
http://www.carolinanature.com/herps/...mouth3666a.jpg

[daniel1983]

It was extreamly calm.....did not even fuss when I was really close to it.....however, when I moved it to the shoulder of the road it struck at me 3 time in the 10 ft. that I walked with it on the hook

[Freakie_frog]

He was on the warm road. And you woke him up