In my backyard garden while it was still under construction:
Customer states there a rattling sound coming from under the hood
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I was a snake man 20 years ago. The only monitors I've ever owned were the kind you fed electricity 
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They are a few different places.. On the Appalachian Trail in NY and NJ. Can't remember the others.
Other than Ticks and Chiggers, we have nothing too offensive on Long Island.. other than the drivers.
Is that the same animal in all the pics? That's crazy
Yes. She grew to 6' within 2 years. Their bite strength is unreal and painful. You have to pry the mouth open to get them to release. Like a little Pitbull with very sharp teeth.
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Snakes I've seen on my property include a black racer, a rat snake, and copperheads. My kids found and kept a dekay's brown snake for a few hours yesterday and set it loose again in the mulch bed where they'd found it.
I take no issue with the non venomous but the copperheads usually find themselves at the business end of a shovel, one as recently as last weekend. My wife pushed the lawnmower over a big one on Saturday but it escaped into an overgrown area and I spent the next 2 hours clearing the grass and brush. Never found it, but I suspect it'll move on to a better habitat now that I've clear cut where he was at.
I had a pet turtle as a kid and now I'm the guy that will stop in the middle of a country road to move them out of the street. My wife brought one home once and I had to lecture her about their home range and had to go out and put it back where she found it.
The kids found this one yesterday, I guess it was sitting on these eggs but when I went to look it was off in the brush a few feet away.
I take no issue with the non venomous but the copperheads usually find themselves at the business end of a shovel, one as recently as last weekend. My wife pushed the lawnmower over a big one on Saturday but it escaped into an overgrown area and I spent the next 2 hours clearing the grass and brush. Never found it, but I suspect it'll move on to a better habitat now that I've clear cut where he was at.
I had a pet turtle as a kid and now I'm the guy that will stop in the middle of a country road to move them out of the street. My wife brought one home once and I had to lecture her about their home range and had to go out and put it back where she found it.
The kids found this one yesterday, I guess it was sitting on these eggs but when I went to look it was off in the brush a few feet away.
Same here. I always stop and put turtles back down by the creek