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Saturday, June 2. 2007

Show and Tell

A reader sent in these nice rattlers caught outside Kingsville, TX., near the natural gas plant. I hope they are planning on eating them...or at least making a belt out of the skin.

 

Posted by Bird Dog in Natural History and Conservation at 15:00 | Comments (6) | Trackbacks (0)

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Woo hoo !! Rattlesnake chili !!
#1 Skookumchuk on 2007-06-02 16:25 (Reply)
ok which one is Buddy?
#2 apple pie on 2007-06-02 18:12 (Reply)
I'm the handsome one!
#3 buddy larsen on 2007-06-02 19:58 (Reply)
I thought so--

In Australia came alarmingly close to one of those ugly black ones they've got--makes good ol Ameican rattlers seem not quite soooo nasty! Although, I still believe as the gentlemen in the photo do--the only good snake is a dead snake. Any little varmint in the field that they help to keep population stabilized--well, I can do that with my.22

Thanks for relieving this world of 3 more of those s.o.b.sf!!
#4 apple pie on 2007-06-03 01:06 (Reply)
Wow! My heroes!
#5 retriever on 2007-06-03 09:48 (Reply)
Oh, I was just kidding --haven't been in Kingsville in years n years. Not entirely sure those snakes are dead, either --esp the one on the left in the pic. Rattles seem curled upward.
#6 buddy larsen on 2007-06-03 10:09 (Reply)

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