Copperhead + Timber Rattler

inkjunkie said
Another thing I don't miss from AZ. Have been told that by the Gravel yard, about 6 miles from us, that the area is infested with Rattlesnakes of some sort. I know that area is infested with Marmots, have ran 3 over with the chopper.
Don't use our gas grill. Wanted to move it last year. Opened it up to find a birds nest with a few eggs. Waited a few weeks to find the birds replaced with 3 snakes...Good times

not poisonous.
a few yrs ago, I was burning a brush pile just outside my back fence. It`s where I always throw storm downed limbs and such, usually burn it every yr., so it gets quite large. was setting on the tailgate of my p/u watching it burn, two huge rats came out the other end, a couple of seconds later a big black snake came out, w/ his huge head about a ft. above the grass "that needed mowing." it was about softball size in the middle, and just kept coming out of the brush plie. I was dumbfounded I guess, I had a pistol in the truck and didn`t even think about it. the snakes head went in the weeds at the edge of the creek before his tail came out of the brush pile. after the pile burned down where I could get to it, I measured the distance between the edge of the burn and the weeds, 9ft and 1" . just happened to be at the Tulsa zoo a couple of days later, and talked to the reptile lady (keeper?) she said it was an unusually large rat snake, good that I didn`t kill it . every time I mowed down there for about 3-4 yrs, I`d think of that snake ! sorry for long post!-------bob