HUGE Copperhead and Stunning Carolina Pygmy Rattlesnake! Summer Roadcruising for Snakes in GA/SC

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NKFherping

NKFherping

3 жыл бұрын

A few productive outings of summer roadcruising for snakes in Georgia and South Carolina!
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@randywatchingbush
@randywatchingbush 3 жыл бұрын
I been chasing snakes for over 6 decades and I never tire of it.. your videos help fill the void left my my old age and my inability to walk as far or withstand as much heat. love your channel son
@murder13love
@murder13love 3 жыл бұрын
Genuinely wholesome comment 🙌
@TheKris2384
@TheKris2384 3 жыл бұрын
I’m always so impressed at how you can spot these small animals in a road, day or night while in a moving vehicle. I always try to watch for critters while driving but you seem to have a real skill!
@Stephen-gp8yi
@Stephen-gp8yi 3 жыл бұрын
The best channel by far thanks guys✌️
@wingsandbeaksbirder2312
@wingsandbeaksbirder2312 3 жыл бұрын
I agree!
@leocobb8657
@leocobb8657 3 жыл бұрын
@@wingsandbeaksbirder2312 ⁰0
@casualobserver77
@casualobserver77 3 жыл бұрын
I think those big gray rat snakes are amazing lookin Underrated animals for sure
@yotehunter3468
@yotehunter3468 3 жыл бұрын
Pygmys are hands down my favorite outta any snake... Have cool but different personalities, and temperaments... But still hot enough to drop mice in seconds, but yet won't touch a mouse iffen it's not hungry... I really LOVE them... Perfect video as always 👍👍
@thetoughunicorn1679
@thetoughunicorn1679 3 жыл бұрын
My favorite are mud snakes. I just really think they are beautiful
@bradsillasen1972
@bradsillasen1972 3 жыл бұрын
Lovely Black Rat, and Corn too! ...and the gimongus Copperhead is spectacular of course.
@mister3horn153
@mister3horn153 3 жыл бұрын
I'm so glad I found your channel. I find the personality and behavior of a lot of other herping channels to be grating and tiresome but I always thoroughly enjoy your vids. Very entertaining and relaxing.
@cheaplaughkennedy2318
@cheaplaughkennedy2318 3 жыл бұрын
Beautiful country roads, really enjoyed, awesome episode.
@mikepeckham3084
@mikepeckham3084 2 жыл бұрын
Thank you. I would like to say thank you to you for making such wonderful videos and taking me back to my childhood. I remember searching for snakes from a very young age on the 118 Acres that my father owned from grass snakes garter snakes pine snakes and so on right here in Central Wisconsin. I have fallen in love with your Channel you do such an awesome job with this channel you take me back to my childhood as I had said. I enjoy the way that you show the snakes and you show how you hunt for them and you show how exciting it can be to go looking for snakes and other reptiles and amphibians so many wonderful memories this brings back. I really like the fact that every time you catch a snake you put the name of this thing and whether it venomous or not. And I truly love the way that you just go out and look and you try to educate people but you're not so arrogant about it like you know everything. Thank you for a wonderful Channel and bringing back so many wonderful memories
@jasonlynch2919
@jasonlynch2919 3 жыл бұрын
Love to see you out helping,on the road around your property or somewhere else, thanks.
@shieldwolf1970
@shieldwolf1970 2 жыл бұрын
Thanks for sharing your passion! I live in the Pee Dee area of SC. The Sandhills National Wildlife Refuge is pretty much my back yard lol. If you ever get the chance, I would love to see you do a video on this area. Lots of snakes and other critters to see. Keep em coming!
@shannonoleson7880
@shannonoleson7880 3 жыл бұрын
That corn snake was beautiful!
@foxwoodjones9831
@foxwoodjones9831 3 жыл бұрын
Liked it before I even watched it, because I just knew it was going to be good content! One of my favorite channels. ❤️
@elusivedreams1702
@elusivedreams1702 3 жыл бұрын
Man I love these damn videos.!!!
@mrlafayette1964
@mrlafayette1964 2 жыл бұрын
I move turtles off the road too. That cornsnake,I never knew they had black and white checkerboard underbellies...the diversity in nature is just stunning,I consider people a part of nature too
@AcesWildMMA
@AcesWildMMA 3 жыл бұрын
Dude I love your channel. You were the first reptile channel I started following. Now I follow about 6. I’ve never owned a reptile but these animals are so fascinating. I love how you do the board flipping in the Wild.
@robadams5799
@robadams5799 3 жыл бұрын
"Oh, hey. Black widow here under this log." *Yawn.* Let's go find some snakes."
@thetoughunicorn1679
@thetoughunicorn1679 3 жыл бұрын
Lol
@mrsgrammy3552
@mrsgrammy3552 3 жыл бұрын
What a great video! So informative and such interesting specimens! Thank you!
@tedrrfjrj6081
@tedrrfjrj6081 3 жыл бұрын
I've been bit by 11 venomous snakes, most of them being copperhead but I was in the hospital for 16 weeks from 4 baby moccasins clung to my left leg as I waded in the water to catch a largemouth that tangled itself in a bunch of mangrove roots across from where I was casting. We were in a swamp in Florida in Arcadia. We parked in the back of the rear lot at a Walmart distribution center. I was choppered to Charlotte Regional Hospital in Port Charlotte, Florida. 6 copperheads n a rattler while hunting rattlesnakes to eat in Arizona. Then there were the 7 spiders, 4 Black widows n 3 Recluses but that's another 7 stories.
@myssyeyde5399
@myssyeyde5399 3 жыл бұрын
Had this on as I made my pet snake’s dinner and replaced her humidity box. Seeing all the wild snakes always cheers me up and motivates me to clean out her home :)
@markmullikin5068
@markmullikin5068 3 жыл бұрын
Enjoy your videos.. can’t wait for your next one
@josephstreett4406
@josephstreett4406 3 жыл бұрын
Next time you do a midwest trip I would love to see you target the massasauga!
@kenjohnson5498
@kenjohnson5498 3 жыл бұрын
I mentioned that in a previous episode, i live close to Grafton Illinois and they are all over the bluffs. So just by the name you used you must be close also. I found 3 while finishing drywall in the Principia College pool complex. I would hunt on my lunch breaks.
@josephstreett4406
@josephstreett4406 3 жыл бұрын
Ya man, I went to college at Missouri western state university for wildlife conservation and there is a wildlife refuge near there where we would go and tag them and do research. Definently a underappreciated snake!
@yellowstone2964
@yellowstone2964 3 жыл бұрын
I got lit up by a copperhead stepping off cabin porch in Ellijay ,took ! step and immediately got bit on foot unfortunately was wearing flip flops.Foot swollen like a football.
@pittschapelfarm2844
@pittschapelfarm2844 3 жыл бұрын
Awesome video! Really enjoy your content.
@WILDsports1068
@WILDsports1068 3 жыл бұрын
That painted turtle is huge! Good job catching it
@michaelporterfield9081
@michaelporterfield9081 3 жыл бұрын
I live in upstate South Carolina. All I have found my whole life is the black rat snake variety. Those grey ones y’all have are awesome.
@billiejobutterbaugh805
@billiejobutterbaugh805 3 жыл бұрын
I just recently subscribed to your channel. I wanted to take the time to say thank you for your videos. I was irrationally terrified of snakes. My son someday would like to have a pet snake. He is not old enough yet to practice to good husbandry. So it would be awhile if we decided to I have been researching it. I figured he should not be deprived of having such a pet because my irrational fears. Watching pet snake owners you can in to my recommended. I was so scared of snakes that it would cause me great anxiety to go out side at night and in shed. If I saw them I would ask my husband to kill them. Well since watching you videos I know my fear is crazy. I now tell him not to kill them and encourage other people to let them live. Although I probably wont be flipping anytime soon. But I may help them if I see them in the road so they dont get hit. I am from SC if your ever in my area you welcome to come flip in my yard. We have a pond and some different wood piles you will probably find them in. I see a black one in the shed from time to time and I am no longer afraid. I see it in the rafters. Thank you again.
@nickstephmancuso8889
@nickstephmancuso8889 3 жыл бұрын
Excellent content keep them coming!!! PS i just found my first northern pine!!!
@dawnanthony3053
@dawnanthony3053 3 жыл бұрын
Hi I'm a huge fan of your channel and I've been subscribed since you started your channel
@Herpingalabama
@Herpingalabama 3 жыл бұрын
Great video! Love seeing these snakes!
@tacocin
@tacocin 3 жыл бұрын
Found the coolest snake yesterday ... a scarlet snake (cemophora coccinea)! Scarlet kings are much more common so I was thrilled with this one!
@floof5575
@floof5575 11 ай бұрын
i love yout channel as a very ☀VERY☀ ammature herper who has road cruised 7 nights in a row and has seen........ one singular uno cotton mouth i almost cried watching this- (btw i know im late and not every last word is spelt right and ABSOLUETLY NO HATE!)
@jenn1234
@jenn1234 3 жыл бұрын
Awesome video Noah! I beginning to just love rat snakes as far as “harmless” snakes go...lol 😆 jk. I do like them though. I have never went herping, but there are quite a few snakes that I would love to see out someday.......maybe even hold one. I wish I knew someone that would take me out. I used to go spotting deer with my friends, so night cruising would be no problem. I look forward to the next! Thanks! 😄❤️🐬
@Mountain.Man.1978
@Mountain.Man.1978 2 жыл бұрын
My dad made compost piles and in Highschool I found a nest of 20 rat snake eggs. They all hatched in class.
@davidsorensen7438
@davidsorensen7438 3 жыл бұрын
That pigmy looked like 2 different snakes when u moved him - great video- On a side note in ellijay have like 60 sheets of Tin if u want it for flipping- free
@CopperTop2024
@CopperTop2024 3 жыл бұрын
Yeah ya want too see some that size and possibly bigger LBL Wranglers Camp Rd over on the Trace of Land between the lakes. Of Kentucky and Tennessee.
@WbrookS-jm2bj
@WbrookS-jm2bj 3 жыл бұрын
Saw a copperhead about that size in Roswell Ga a couple weeks ago. Biggest I had seen in that area. It was dark and thought it was a rat snake before I got a better look. Also if you ever go up near Big Canoe that area has been crawling with Eastern Milk Snakes. I cruised 4 in 45 minutes the other night.
@terrykavanaugh2481
@terrykavanaugh2481 3 жыл бұрын
Ah there you are popping up in my timeline!
@steelyv5118
@steelyv5118 3 жыл бұрын
wow that copperhead was MASSIVE
@mikeabbott2396
@mikeabbott2396 3 жыл бұрын
14:10 "Beautiful Rattlesnake Face" 🤣🤣
@theanimalshack9266
@theanimalshack9266 3 жыл бұрын
If this channel doesn’t satisfy your reptile lust idk what dose
@smetlogik
@smetlogik 3 жыл бұрын
12:29 that was pretty much straight 🔥. Weird how you aren't seeing a car ALL night and as soon as you find a snake, they appear. wth?
@jimc6687
@jimc6687 3 жыл бұрын
Sort of the same thing for me..........when I forget my umbrella........it rains cats & Iguanas!! Jim C.
@smetlogik
@smetlogik 3 жыл бұрын
@@jimc6687 😂☂️🦎
@orangebird7224
@orangebird7224 3 жыл бұрын
Your videos are really good! I love watching them! Also, are Pygmy rattlesnakes common in South Carolina?
@NKFherping
@NKFherping 3 жыл бұрын
I’d say they’re locally abundant! They can be common in the right habitat and completely absent from large areas.
@orangebird7224
@orangebird7224 3 жыл бұрын
@@NKFherping 👍😃
@kimlock9440
@kimlock9440 3 жыл бұрын
Beautiful looking snake 🐍
@stonedog23
@stonedog23 2 жыл бұрын
In the woods with open sandals on, very brave.
@Maxbps88
@Maxbps88 2 жыл бұрын
I'm surprised you don't carry a 4-5-foot or yard stick with you to throw down next to the snakes for scale. Love your videos.
@petercarmeci8317
@petercarmeci8317 3 жыл бұрын
Nice job, Noah.
@Rryan8065
@Rryan8065 3 жыл бұрын
Woah that garter looks magnificent
@johncamp7679
@johncamp7679 3 жыл бұрын
I started from Georgia and drove through rain all the way to St Francesville Louisiana. It’s still raining
@stanleynich
@stanleynich 3 жыл бұрын
I know what you mean I road cruised a juvenile copperhead in Lebanon Tennessee last Saturday and as soon as I got a couple pics haven't seen a car in a hour one rolls up so had to move it off the road with the hook so the car could do by
@bestlaughs6932
@bestlaughs6932 3 жыл бұрын
Is no one gonna talk abt the deer that ran off the road at 11:27?
@davidh2505
@davidh2505 3 жыл бұрын
I thought I saw something but had to slow it down to see it. Blended in real well.
@bestlaughs6932
@bestlaughs6932 3 жыл бұрын
@@davidh2505 yep definitely did blend in rlly well!
@camandtateoutdoors2439
@camandtateoutdoors2439 3 жыл бұрын
@@bestlaughs6932 I saw it too lol
@Powerule23
@Powerule23 3 жыл бұрын
Awesome camera work.
@UMBAY95
@UMBAY95 3 жыл бұрын
I would love for you to come up to Pennsylvania and try for some awesome milks
@robadams5799
@robadams5799 3 жыл бұрын
Nice to see you in North Georgia. Anywhere near Gainesville? There are plenty of restaurants and such, so no need for "stopping here to pee and stuff."
@TheOriginalGabberjaw
@TheOriginalGabberjaw 3 жыл бұрын
*copperhead appears* You got me dude.
@ancientheart2532
@ancientheart2532 3 жыл бұрын
Beautiful animals
@kimharpe6074
@kimharpe6074 2 жыл бұрын
I saw a copperhead in Illinois about that big or bigger they are beautiful ❤️
@stevehogan8829
@stevehogan8829 3 жыл бұрын
SWFL Corn snakes are so nice.
@davemi00
@davemi00 3 жыл бұрын
“Snakes on the Road, can be Hit or Miss”. 😱
@ancientheart2532
@ancientheart2532 3 жыл бұрын
When I went to Thailand in 2005, I was excited to look for King Cobras. I looked under old timber...brush...debris and never did see one. Then I found out the Thai's killl and eat them.
@coreywild
@coreywild 3 жыл бұрын
Nice one!! i found the Copperheads way more agressive than the Cottonmouths! Loved Herping USA !! nice work
@hylaherping9180
@hylaherping9180 3 жыл бұрын
A late upload? A surprise to be sure but a welcome one
@jabaitedcat4889
@jabaitedcat4889 3 жыл бұрын
Wow that sneak is really pretty
@snakesstuff9077
@snakesstuff9077 3 жыл бұрын
Snake*
@jabaitedcat4889
@jabaitedcat4889 3 жыл бұрын
@@snakesstuff9077 lol
@brandonzayres
@brandonzayres 3 жыл бұрын
2nd box turtle had the colors of a three toed eastern hybrid
@AguilaDeOnix85
@AguilaDeOnix85 3 жыл бұрын
I saw a copperhead no less than three feet long, last year. It was the first time I even saw a copperhead in over 20 years. That one's a monster.
@WbrookS-jm2bj
@WbrookS-jm2bj 3 жыл бұрын
Not sure what area you are in but absolutely seems like there numbers are on the rise in Georgia. Been finding snakes and saving them from neighbors who fear them since I was 8. I have seen more in the last 4 or 5 years then I saw in the previous 15 plus years. My dad is a Veterinarian and has seen an uptick in copperhead bites as well.
@Canebrake069
@Canebrake069 3 жыл бұрын
@@WbrookS-jm2bj Has there been an uptick in the population growing around you with a lot of new residential developments popping up everywhere in the last few years? If so that’s probably why, they may be adapting to their new man made habitat increasing more frequent encounters with people & pets.
@WbrookS-jm2bj
@WbrookS-jm2bj 3 жыл бұрын
@@Canebrake069 The area I'm in has been pretty static within a 10 to 12 mile radius for 20 plus years but I had considered that. Another possibility being that King snakes seem less common. Unfortunately many people I speak to believe black snakes are dangerous or venomous. They are more often spotted and killed. I'm sure there are a number of factors involved and new development is involved. I worked with a herpatologist as a teen, have a degree in wildlife management and my dad is a Veterinarian so I am always paying attention to the animals I share territory with lol. By the way I like the name. I lived in south Georgia for years and miss seeing Timbers. One of my favorites.
@williamsmith7669
@williamsmith7669 3 жыл бұрын
Ya'll really need to come to the Missouri Ozarks. 1.5 million acres of national forrest/wilderness males for some large reptiles.
@003fulle
@003fulle 3 жыл бұрын
Are you using an old incandescent Maglight? Doesn’t look like a led light.
@alienxyt
@alienxyt 3 жыл бұрын
My family lives in coastal south carolina and I never see any of these things! Not even a garter snake. What camera do you use? Great video quality.
@Bmxdad40
@Bmxdad40 3 жыл бұрын
Please tell me that didn't go to where the head was pointing on that shed to look for that king.....please say ot isn't so
@eaglemangaming8906
@eaglemangaming8906 3 жыл бұрын
I was so surprised how big that corn snake was here in Tennessee they are very small
@nonesoherpetological8974
@nonesoherpetological8974 2 жыл бұрын
They get huge in Tennessee too. I'm actually holding one in my profile pic.
@Rryan8065
@Rryan8065 3 жыл бұрын
How do you spot such tiny snakes while driving??
@fayemartin465
@fayemartin465 3 жыл бұрын
keep on ranting i have learned alot about snakes watching your video,s
@libertymorris8997
@libertymorris8997 3 жыл бұрын
Awesome
@carschmn
@carschmn 3 жыл бұрын
Large and in charge snakes today!
@Coastal_one
@Coastal_one 3 жыл бұрын
Looked like something sprinted up the hill into woods after you saw the toads
@FireoftheGreeks
@FireoftheGreeks 3 жыл бұрын
Early squad
@azizaseem9201
@azizaseem9201 3 жыл бұрын
Still haven't found a pygmy in southern SC and been looking for 10+ years
@philbrown6787
@philbrown6787 3 жыл бұрын
I stumbled across a copperhead as big or bigger not long ago. No one would downplay a bite from one that size. It would have to be life threatening, healthy person or no
@jeepsblackpowderandlights4305
@jeepsblackpowderandlights4305 3 жыл бұрын
we have copper head that live where i live, by my house for the lat 17 year.. ive killed many of them, becaue i do have animal outide like cat.. but osme i do toss over the retaining wall, ours are bigger than the one you saw
@elfansumigar4522
@elfansumigar4522 3 жыл бұрын
Anyone see what I see on 11:27 on left side? Like something fast going in to forest
@ph4rm4six
@ph4rm4six 3 жыл бұрын
Did he not see the deer climbing up the hill at 11:28
@kenjohnson5498
@kenjohnson5498 3 жыл бұрын
The one thing i miss living where i am these days is not seeing bats flying around at sunset, they declined heavily around 6 or 7 years ago and you rarely see one now. As far as snakes all these city folk think every snake is poisonous and they get killed so unless you go out into the woods you rarely see snakes either. If you ask me we have evolved just above ass scratching finger sniffing monkeys for the biggest part lol.
@RustybeltRC
@RustybeltRC 3 жыл бұрын
I love snakes 🐍 come to Ohio!
@peterfarrens
@peterfarrens Жыл бұрын
Nice-Vidios'Keep-Herpin
@typicalmark1277
@typicalmark1277 3 жыл бұрын
I was the 91st like
@lonewolfdesignsbylarry
@lonewolfdesignsbylarry 3 жыл бұрын
In the last four days I have had two run ins with pygmy Rattlesnakes how do I control these pests? One was within a few inches of my foot in my shop the second was next to my front door of my house.
@lonewolfdesignsbylarry
@lonewolfdesignsbylarry 3 жыл бұрын
@@bernadetteboyce I used a shotgun but yes same principle
@CASTLEBRAV0
@CASTLEBRAV0 3 жыл бұрын
Where in north GA are you in? I'm in Dacula and am always looking for snakes, but can never find any.
@CASTLEBRAV0
@CASTLEBRAV0 3 жыл бұрын
PS. Love your channel! You guys are the reason I have a renewed interest in herping.
@loyaltyisroyalty5616
@loyaltyisroyalty5616 3 жыл бұрын
The Carolina pygmies... how toxic is their venom in relation to the larger types of rattlesnakes you find in those areas?
@NKFherping
@NKFherping 3 жыл бұрын
It’s toxic enough to be considered very dangerous to people, but not as dangerous as the larger rattlesnakes.
@gordondalrymple7644
@gordondalrymple7644 4 ай бұрын
Why does that Pygmy look pinkish brown at the start, then in the flashlight, it looks grayish green ?
@raydhafutomo8152
@raydhafutomo8152 3 жыл бұрын
l see the black widow spider
@ashersell1795
@ashersell1795 3 жыл бұрын
Me and my little cousin we're looking for fence lizards in Arkansas and I stepped on a pygmy rattlesnake cuz I thought it was a bungee cord and then it came up and moved and it scared me
@puckettfishing7452
@puckettfishing7452 3 жыл бұрын
Lucky you weren’t bit!!
@landonchambers8975
@landonchambers8975 3 жыл бұрын
The biggest copperhead I've ever seen was around 4 feet j about the diameter of a golf ball
@travisallen2093
@travisallen2093 3 жыл бұрын
3:30 That is a King Snake. I see them here, so I've made the same mistake. Or.... is it a mistake ? Are the King Snakes I see the same species as the Black Rat Snake ? just wondrin
@Nestergirl123
@Nestergirl123 3 жыл бұрын
Open toe sandals!!? If you were my son... 😅
@gordondalrymple7644
@gordondalrymple7644 4 ай бұрын
Herp logs are always good ', birds are beautiful but they fly ,herps are earthbound like us , for now
@theitineranthistorian2024
@theitineranthistorian2024 3 жыл бұрын
when are you going to look for indigo snakes they need help
@gigacade
@gigacade 2 жыл бұрын
Am I crazy or was that a deer to left at 11:27
@Gardena2
@Gardena2 3 жыл бұрын
which US state is bushmaster in?
@rickstarReviewsHuntFish
@rickstarReviewsHuntFish 3 жыл бұрын
You close to Chattanooga?
@eaglemangaming8906
@eaglemangaming8906 3 жыл бұрын
Did anyone see that deer that ran off the road
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