Posted by warbaby on June 01, 2023 at 06:10:53 from (24.247.205.221):
In Reply to: Re: Snakes posted by MarkB_MI on June 01, 2023 at 03:02:18:
My brothers and I would follow my dad plowing to pick up fishing worms and we'd commonly see Massassaugas when he got down near the swampy areas. I guess nobody ever got bit because we all survived. Unfortunately, the snakes and the swamp didnt. Its now a subdivision.
A summer rite of passage back then was when any of our cousins would come and stay with us and we'd take a day-long hike/fishing trip following the streams and fire roads to the nearest town (Luzerne, Mi.). We would often come across a big Blue Racer snake sunning themselves on the sandy trails and we'd send a gullible youngster ahead to see what it was.
A quirky hunting strategy of that particular snake is that once it visually detects movement, it rears up its head and quickly comes toward the moving object to for a better look and possibly to get a whiff of scent to decide if its a tasty meal or not. To us kids it was obviously chasing us down to kill us all and we'd all run through the woods, screaming and yelling for what seemed like miles with the deadly serpent nipping at our heels! Of course, the snake had probably resumed its languid position in the sun after a only a few yards of imagined pursuit, but we just knew it had doggedly stalked us until we got to town and then probably waited in the shadows as we got a pop at the gas station and fished the old millpond, and then followed us all the way back home as well, hoping to pick off any stragglers...
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