I WAS BORN IN THE BOOTHEEL OF MISSOURI. I GREW UP WITH ALL OF THOSE SNAKES. AND THIS VIDEO IS AS CLOSE AS I WANNA GET TO ANY SNAKE THANKS FOR SHARING GOD BLESS
contreeman same here! I grew up in Missouri and I used to split wood and as I was picking up a log to put In the log splitter, a huge copperhead jumped up at me! It was so close to gettin me I was lucky
Phoenix resident here, I love snakes! They won't bother you none so long as you give them enough space and respect. I got a Ball Python at home and he's such a sweetheart. Always best to relocate any snake you don't like and just leave king snakes alone. The world is a better place with snakes around😁
Cottonmouths copperheads timber rattlers are all up and down the Tradewater river. My Grandad's farm was on the Tradewater in Crittenden Co. And they are in Crooked Creek. In Marion.
My dad caught a copper head fishing in the little creek that runs by the road on stamping ground road in north Scott County. That would have been 1999 or so. When he violently set the hook, it flew out the water and hit him in the chest. He screamed like a little girl and broke his pole while hitting the snake with it. After watching this it may have been a Northern Water snake. One of my best memories. RIP Dad.
Install a Screech Owl nest box. Owls eat rodents which host ticks and attract and feed pit vipers. It is easy for someone walking down a trail to step over a fallen limb and disturb a pit viper waiting in ambush. This can result in health or permanent injury. Pit vipers belong in medical laboratories and Zoos. Make the world a safe garden for humanity.
I remember my father telling stories of how the old timers could smell a venomous snake before they ever saw it. I always wondered "how can you smell a snake??" Guess he wasn't full of it after all..
@ Seth & fat J, the ole timers around here in my neck of the woods , S.E ky , say that if you smell cucumber that there are copperheads around , i must say that i have never personally been able to confirm that . I will say there have been a few times that i have smelled cucumber in the woods but never seen no snakes , but then again i didn't stick around to see or try to find any . Perhaps this is just an ole tale .
Here in Missouri I’ve been told to watch out for a smell that smells similar to cucumbers, but isn’t cucumbers. They say if you smell it, then you’re close to a den of copperhead’s.
To all the people complaining about using the word poisonous over venomous, you should really learn what the words actually mean. Poison, toxin, and venom are all interchangeable terms. The difference is how the chemicals get into your body. Consumption, injection, or just by contact. SMH, people trying to sound smart, but really just sounding stupid.
2:45 every range map I have seen for Copperheads in Kentucky show the entire state, they live in most of the Eastern half of the U.S. That said that range map is IDENTICAL to range maps for timber rattlesnakes. I believe they mixed it up. Don't believe me? Go check literally any range map you can find. I have read they are less common in the INNER Bluegrass which is essentially just the Lexington and Frankfort area. I personally have captured a Copperhead in my old backyard off of St. Ann Drive near the Richmond Rd and New Circle intersection. Right within city limits of Lexington! There is a reservoir nearby and also a creek right at the end of my old street running parallel to St Ann Drive. I thought it was crazy too. I only rented that house for 1 year back in 2010, I captured a Copperhead, a Garter Snake and 2 juvenile Black Rat Snakes during that time, every one of them I spotted in my backyard. P.s. I relocated the Copperhead about 30 miles south outside of my hometown, Berea.
Here's the deal... You have these wildlife scientists going to specific places looking for these animals... known as 'wildlife management areas'. Where they find snakes in those given areas, gets logged on the map. Where they don't... well... they don't. The thing is, Kentucky is NOT 'every inch a wildlife management area', where these scientists have access to investigate what's there and what isn't. I'm in Bracken County and have quite a few copperheads on and around my property, because it abuts some wooded area that nobody goes into. Every now and then I'll end up with one in my yard or near the house, and have to get out a hook and bucket and convey it back to the woods where it belongs. No big deal. So when you look at a range map... don't bet your life on it being 'exactly right'. Snakes don't read maps. Copperheads HAVE been seen in every county in Kentucky. Their range extends up into Southern Ohio, and Indiana... SO... even if the range map you're looking at says a given area of Kentucky doesn't have copperheads... take that with a HUGE grain of salt. If the snakes exist in Southern Ohio and Southern Indiana... it's very fair to say that Kentucky, south of the Ohio river, is VERY MUCH in their plausible range. You might not see as MANY, in say, Northern Kentucky, or in the Bluegrass region, due to development/loss of habitat... but that doesn't preclude there being a few scattered around in rural/wooded/overgrown areas where few, if any, humans traverse. They say the Cottonmouth's range is limited to Western Kentucky... and, I would concur that's where they're most likely found... but that does NOT mean, that it's impossible to find one north along the Ohio river. Flooding and river traffic, make it entirely plausible that "A" cottonmouth could either accidentally hitch a ride on a boat or barge... In short... with Cottonmouths, Copperheads and Timber Rattlesnakes... NEVER say NEVER in ANY Kentucky county. While the range map may indicate where you're MOST LIKELY to find the snakes... it cannot accurately indicate where every specimen is.
i saw a snake in my backyard and i didn’t get a great look at it but it was about 2 and a half foot long. it was black was with a brown pattern on it. the head was darker but i couldn’t tell if it was a flat head or a narrow head. i live in south eastern kentucky so i’m convinced between a black snake or a copper head. i don’t live near any body’s of water so it wasn’t a moccasin. i haven’t seen it since. if anyone could give me an idea of what i could have been it would be appreciated.
I remember being probably around 8 years old and going to a nature preserve with my family while I wandered off over to where a snake handler was in a open divided area separating venomous and non venomous snakes and was introducing them to everyone, so when he was showing off a docile hognose snake he asked for a volunteer to hold and handle it so I stepped forward, a couple of minutes later my Parents and 3 older Brothers caught up to where I was and noticed me with the snake wrapped around my neck and arms and they all nearly had heart attacks because they had missed the snake being identified as non venomous and me volunteering to hold it, ha... Ha... it was a fun day with snakes, and with shocking the family.
That copperhead is huge. I have never in my life seen one that big. Although I will say I did find a 6 foot timber rattler in Kentucky. He was hangin out in my aunts firewood pile and when I saw him we had a staring contest. He didn't rattle or nothing and I think he was just so lethargic and so logey that he had no interest in striking he just sat there and watched me. I didn't get to close and I respected his distance and let him be
There's a cottonmouth that I've seen in the creek bordering my place in Ohio Co. Dude was thrashing around in the shallow water with his unmistakable white mouth agape. That creek also is the abode to the largest copperhead I've ever seen.
What is the name of the place in Frankfort he was talking about where you can go see the snakes? Would love to take my granddaughter but I couldn't quite decipher what he was saying.
Thanks Grumpy old fart - Now I'll be having nightmares. I'm a former Buckeye - but I bleed blue - GO CATS!!! MotherOfManyHorses - where do you live now? I moved from Ohio - where I have seen more than a few snakes in my urban area there, and the only snakes I have seen here are dead ones on the road and a couple of rat snakes. In fact my hubby literally came face to face with one of them and they just sat there and looked at each other before the snake slithered off.
According to range maps for Agkistrodon Piscivorus (Western Cotton mouth aka Water Moccasin, Ohio county Kentucky is within the known range for them, albeit the extreme edge of their range is at your county, they don't live any further east though. In fact if you look at 7:21 on their range map it actually hooks over and has the area that Ohio county is located in the blue.... So they didn't say they don't live there, not sure where you got that idea. The map agrees with your claim. I guess we cant all be good with geography. 😁
@@toki89666the cottonmouth is found little farther East than Ohio / Muhlenburg ( I identified them there also in Peabody WMA) farther East in Butler county near Logan County line . He states butler county at end of video
Snakes are very beneficial, eating lots of rats and mice, my rule of thumb, if I am out in the boonies I leave them alone, no matter what kind they are. If they are close to the house, I might kill a venomous snake, harmless snakes are left to take care of the rodents. I recently caught a small garter snake in my house, no idea how he got inside, he was relocated to the front yard.
Idk man it's like I've been catching snakes for fun since I was a kid and I've never been bit by them if I didn't grab them first. There are many snake enthusiasts that prove the last thing they wanna do is bite. Out in the sticks there is a certain type of person that say "the only good snake is a dead snake" and it's all pretty much the same person. Good rule of thumb is don't listen to clones cuz they just aren't original thinkers. Everytime I go to a rural part there is always this type of person and honestly it creeps me out. You shouldn't be able to tell someones personality by their custom Jeep. Imagine what these people did during the witch trials and other times of ignorance. There's a reason people reference the stereotypical hillbilly as backwards, it's Devolution.
@@collin9716 I enjoy the looks on their faces when I tell them I breed pythons. They have a real hard time processing at that point. Their "macho" (read: fear-based) response to snakes is to kill them. When someone who free-handles big snakes every day shows up, it really messes with their chest puffing. They all make that same frustrated, confused face. It's great.
I'm watching this video to see what I need to watch out for cuz I just got bitten by a snake today I'm fine I would be probably dead already if it was a poison
When he said rat snake it reminded of when I was partying at a lake and I went to take a leak and as I took a step back when I finished and tried to tie my swim trunks back up, I stepped on what felt like a water hose that was half full, I looked down and it was a HUGE rat snake at least 8 feet no joke. He didn't bite he just took off luckily and I ran like a little girl and jumped right in the water where my friends were haha
interesting i saw a Cottonmouth On The Ky River Palisades Trail A Good Three foot one Never saw one till then Very Fascinating I Did keep my distance and took a picture of it
Ive found a few in Harrison co. Mostly by railroad tracks under the ties laying beside tracks , i have found 6 in one night at robinson dam fishing at night in august
Rhabdophis Tigrinis, a snake native to Japan actually is a legit poisonous snake. They have glands in their necks containing poison as a defense against being eaten. They also have venomous saliva. Very strange exception to the rule.
According to range maps for Agkistrodon Piscivorus (Western Cotton mouth aka Water Moccasin, Ohio county Kentucky is within the known range for them, albeit the extreme edge of their range is at your county, they don't live any further east though. In fact if you look at 7:21 on their range map it actually hooks over and has the area that Ohio county is located in the blue.... So they didn't say they don't live there, not sure where you got that idea. The map agrees with your claim. I guess we cant all be good with geography. 😁
I’ve seen copperhead in Campbell county. Absolutly beautiful snakes! I’ve yet to see a milk or corn snake. I leave all snakes alone. They’re just trying to earn a living like the rest of us.
Im TERRIFIED of snakes. How can I keep them off our property and away from my children? I have heard mothballs work. Is this true, or what can I use to keep snakes away?
Gonna tell you right now i clicked on this because as a 50 year old man from detroit but all family from eastern ky snakes are my ONLY fear. People not so much. Forcing myself to watch this
Eastern ky caught a cotton mouth on my fishing line. Let dad take care of that. Meanwhile other side of the pay lake watched a feller wrestle a 5 foot long catfish for almost an hour till he came up all bloody and held that big cat long as he was up in the air
My grandparents lived in eastern hills of Kentucky i almost got bit by a cottonmouth 5ft. Grandpa shot it it was covered by little young. My dad seen it before me so he stopped me from dumping bluegills in the creek. I needef glasses.
My grandpa in eastern Kentucky would mow the yard they had and when we vosit there would be chunks of cooperheads 20 ft. from the front porch. Those hills have been there a long time. They also had a large cottonmouth that was a threat my grandpas' double barrel 12' gauge took cate of that. Years later in Georgia a territorial mocassin took over a pond some children and bit a dog a red chow it cried. I brought bacl my 12 ga. took care of it. Snakes aren't as simple as ppl say i saw a 5ft. canebreak at dusk coming out of dense woods to cross the road to get to a mowed yard with little kids toys and i must have ran it over with my truck about 9 times he made it across then died. It was a threat to the small kids i use to see playing in that yard. There were two snakes i never ended a beautiful Indiago in Georgia it looked at me and i at it we were both curious. It's against the law to mess with Indigo snakes they are so tolerate of ppl alot of ppl take them for pets they belong in the woods to take out rattlets. I walk on by to go hunting and he went on his way. Then i crossed path with a large coral snake it flicked it's tongue a quickly backed up and went down a hole it was near dusk.
@@stevendavis5387 "what a cruel statement to make" Gerald had the guts to join in and make a contribution brave guy,,, i suffer with dyslexia i can't spell have difficulty in reading,,, so i know how Gerald has to cope with life ,, so Steven apologise to Gerald please oh you might think how am i conducting this comment,,, ( well i have a spelling correction program in my computer,, ortherwise i couldn't comment,,,,,Edwin John Thompson ,,,,Ed
My uncle got bit by a copperhead next to his bed when he got up for a glass of water. He lived in a log cabin he built himself. Eastern Ky Letcher county by the way. He said it felt like a bee sting. Turned on the lights and chopped that beast up. All you snake lovers out there you are playing with nasty fire. I HATE the serpent and snakes are the only thing on this earth i am afraid of. And im from Detroit
Being from Southeastern Michigan, you were lucky, as our only venomous snake is the Eastern Massasauga Rattlesnake. There were all kinds of tales about how Belle Isle was infested with them back in the day, but it wasn't until there was serious expansion northward that folks started having encounters. I read about one person who went to the ER several times before someone recognized what was going on. For my part, the only one I ever saw was near Georgian Bay. They taught us in Boy Scouts about "the big four", and while I've had pleasant encounters with three of them, the coral snake is still elusive for me.
Most - there is one venomous snake that has round pupils. I just can't remember which one. I would suggest figuring it out some other way anyhow. Who wants to get their head down that close to a snake to check?!?
I live just a few miles from the area in Daviess county that has the large population of Cotton Mouths that he is talking about, and there are a BUNCH of them there. I have caught a couple of them, but I know a guy who hunts there that kills dozens of them each year. I have tried to get him to go easy on them, with not much success.
Copperheads are not harmful. I have been bit 3 times by a copperhead in Missouri and nothing happened! Both snakes were about 3 foot long and very fat in the middle. Very very common snake in Missouri. They love being under old tin metal in the summer time....
Timber rattle snakes here where I live in KY. An alot in Brenhiem Forest where I worked 16yrs ago. UofL actually tagged an tracked sum snakes. Dens in winter hold more than a 100 there.
Not just Tim...but @ 4:04 this "snake guy" also calls them poisonous....if you're supposed to be an expert in ANY field, at least know the basics of that field.
It amazes me that so-called professionals still don't know the difference in poisonous and venomous. There are NO poisonous snakes. Only venomous or non-venemous.
Me and my buddy found a baby copperhead and his dog almost got bit and my buddy was 6 inches away from picking it up and I said wait it’s a copperhead and his dad was weed eating so he chopped it up with the weed eater
I live right next to Adair wma in boone county and killed a copperhead with the lawnmower while working on the church property bordering the WMA. They are in boone co for sure.
Can i email a picture and get an identification found two baby snakes in my yard... My 2 year old wasnt scared wanted to hold them.... I cant tell much about them have pictures... Also have 4 children that play in this yard.. Please comment a email
Most snakes are venomous. I have seen a snake breeder show us, a snake that is both poisonous and venomous. But maybe 99% of the snakes have venom. I don't understand how the person who is narrating this video, isn't better informed. I have seen this mistake many times. Their is snake that has rear fangs, and a moderate dose of venom. Normally not an issue with most people.
You are correct the snake is called an eastern hog nose. Not a copper head. It's fangs are set back in the head witch makes it almost impossible to bite a human . There main diet are toad frogs . The rear mounted fangs puncture the frog and realise the air and paralyze the toad. A toad will suck air in and inflate it's body .making it harder swallow. When it feels threatened.
Dude you are dead wrong!! Most snakes are NOT venomous. In fact non venomous are 10 times more common than venomous. Your stating 99% of snakes have venom is laughable!!!! Not even close!!! Maybe you need to do a little research before you go spouting off obvious lies. It's people like you that don't have a clue of the first thing about snakes that give them a bad reputation. Read some books or at least do some research on the internet before you open up your mouth again!!!!!!!
Thanks for posting this. I missed when this episode aired.
Here in Australia we’d be rapt to have such impressive looking snakes. We only have the brown snake to worry about.
I WAS BORN IN THE BOOTHEEL OF MISSOURI. I GREW UP WITH ALL OF THOSE SNAKES. AND THIS VIDEO IS AS CLOSE AS I WANNA GET TO ANY SNAKE THANKS FOR SHARING GOD BLESS
contreeman same here! I grew up in Missouri and I used to split wood and as I was picking up a log to put
In the log splitter, a huge copperhead jumped up at me! It was so close to gettin me I was lucky
where at in bootheel. I'm from new madrid county
Im from central mo. Only good snake is an alive snake
Phoenix resident here, I love snakes! They won't bother you none so long as you give them enough space and respect. I got a Ball Python at home and he's such a sweetheart. Always best to relocate any snake you don't like and just leave king snakes alone.
The world is a better place with snakes around😁
Cottonmouths copperheads timber rattlers are all up and down the Tradewater river. My Grandad's farm was on the Tradewater in Crittenden Co.
And they are in Crooked Creek. In Marion.
My dad caught a copper head fishing in the little creek that runs by the road on stamping ground road in north Scott County. That would have been 1999 or so. When he violently set the hook, it flew out the water and hit him in the chest. He screamed like a little girl and broke his pole while hitting the snake with it. After watching this it may have been a Northern Water snake. One of my best memories. RIP Dad.
Give all snakes a wide berth if you’re unsure.
Install a Screech Owl nest box. Owls eat rodents which host ticks and attract and feed pit vipers. It is easy for someone walking down a trail to step over a fallen limb and disturb a pit viper waiting in ambush. This can result in health or permanent injury. Pit vipers belong in medical laboratories and Zoos. Make the world a safe garden for humanity.
I have been to your beautiful state several times.......If I ever get the chance to go hiking there I will keep an eye out for those critters,thanks
I've encountered 2 cottonmouth, one copperhead within a 200 yard span of beach. Location was Grand rivers KY.
I swear this guy was in movies in the 80s and 90s.
Jurassic park👍👊
He looks like M Emmett Walsh, played in the first Missing in Action movie with Chuck Norris
I remember my father telling stories of how the old timers could smell a venomous snake before they ever saw it. I always wondered "how can you smell a snake??" Guess he wasn't full of it after all..
Seth Schronce thay smell like rotten melons
@ Seth & fat J, the ole timers around here in my neck of the woods , S.E ky , say that if you smell cucumber that there are copperheads around , i must say that i have never personally been able to confirm that . I will say there have been a few times that i have smelled cucumber in the woods but never seen no snakes , but then again i didn't stick around to see or try to find any . Perhaps this is just an ole tale .
They smell like cucumbers
Smells like cucumbers Ive been told. But, If you smell cucumbers, you already too close- and have already upset him.
Here in Missouri I’ve been told to watch out for a smell that smells similar to cucumbers, but isn’t cucumbers. They say if you smell it, then you’re close to a den of copperhead’s.
Did I miss the Timber Rattler at some point? I only saw 2 snakes.
Just the Fake Shemp at the beginning. I was hoping to see the Timber Rattlesnake, too.
To all the people complaining about using the word poisonous over venomous, you should really learn what the words actually mean. Poison, toxin, and venom are all interchangeable terms. The difference is how the chemicals get into your body. Consumption, injection, or just by contact. SMH, people trying to sound smart, but really just sounding stupid.
Snakes aren't poisonous, they are venemous.
Exactly in every KYafield vid with venomous snakes this guy always calls them poisonous and John for some reason doesn't ever correct him.
redchaserron THANK YOU!
redchaserron I know that drives me crazy when they say that
Victorseafog Because it doesn't fucking matter?
Poison and Venom are different
I couldn't catch the name of the center in Kentucky where the snakes can be viewed. What is it called?
Kentucky Reptile Zoo in Slade as well
Salato Wildlife Education Center
2:45 every range map I have seen for Copperheads in Kentucky show the entire state, they live in most of the Eastern half of the U.S.
That said that range map is IDENTICAL to range maps for timber rattlesnakes. I believe they mixed it up.
Don't believe me? Go check literally any range map you can find.
I have read they are less common in the INNER Bluegrass which is essentially just the Lexington and Frankfort area.
I personally have captured a Copperhead in my old backyard off of St. Ann Drive near the Richmond Rd and New Circle intersection. Right within city limits of Lexington! There is a reservoir nearby and also a creek right at the end of my old street running parallel to St Ann Drive.
I thought it was crazy too.
I only rented that house for 1 year back in 2010, I captured a Copperhead, a Garter Snake and 2 juvenile Black Rat Snakes during that time, every one of them I spotted in my backyard.
P.s. I relocated the Copperhead about 30 miles south outside of my hometown, Berea.
Here's the deal...
You have these wildlife scientists going to specific places looking for these animals... known as 'wildlife management areas'. Where they find snakes in those given areas, gets logged on the map. Where they don't... well... they don't.
The thing is, Kentucky is NOT 'every inch a wildlife management area', where these scientists have access to investigate what's there and what isn't.
I'm in Bracken County and have quite a few copperheads on and around my property, because it abuts some wooded area that nobody goes into. Every now and then I'll end up with one in my yard or near the house, and have to get out a hook and bucket and convey it back to the woods where it belongs. No big deal.
So when you look at a range map... don't bet your life on it being 'exactly right'. Snakes don't read maps.
Copperheads HAVE been seen in every county in Kentucky. Their range extends up into Southern Ohio, and Indiana...
SO... even if the range map you're looking at says a given area of Kentucky doesn't have copperheads... take that with a HUGE grain of salt. If the snakes exist in Southern Ohio and Southern Indiana... it's very fair to say that Kentucky, south of the Ohio river, is VERY MUCH in their plausible range.
You might not see as MANY, in say, Northern Kentucky, or in the Bluegrass region, due to development/loss of habitat... but that doesn't preclude there being a few scattered around in rural/wooded/overgrown areas where few, if any, humans traverse.
They say the Cottonmouth's range is limited to Western Kentucky... and, I would concur that's where they're most likely found... but that does NOT mean, that it's impossible to find one north along the Ohio river. Flooding and river traffic, make it entirely plausible that "A" cottonmouth could either accidentally hitch a ride on a boat or barge...
In short... with Cottonmouths, Copperheads and Timber Rattlesnakes... NEVER say NEVER in ANY Kentucky county. While the range map may indicate where you're MOST LIKELY to find the snakes... it cannot accurately indicate where every specimen is.
i saw a snake in my backyard and i didn’t get a great look at it but it was about 2 and a half foot long. it was black was with a brown pattern on it. the head was darker but i couldn’t tell if it was a flat head or a narrow head. i live in south eastern kentucky so i’m convinced between a black snake or a copper head. i don’t live near any body’s of water so it wasn’t a moccasin. i haven’t seen it since. if anyone could give me an idea of what i could have been it would be appreciated.
Are copperheads prevalent in the Frankfort area?
I remember being probably around 8 years old and going to a nature preserve with my family while I wandered off over to where a snake handler was in a open divided area separating venomous and non venomous snakes and was introducing them to everyone, so when he was showing off a docile hognose snake he asked for a volunteer to hold and handle it so I stepped forward, a couple of minutes later my Parents and 3 older Brothers caught up to where I was and noticed me with the snake wrapped around my neck and arms and they all nearly had heart attacks because they had missed the snake being identified as non venomous and me volunteering to hold it, ha... Ha... it was a fun day with snakes, and with shocking the family.
I am 63 now, and from Maryland, but remember in the 5 grade some knucklehead brought in a copperhead for show and tell!
I bet the teacher had a shit fit after waking up from fainting. Well, did he show and tell how the teacher reacted?
From Md as well. Why Copperheads are so feared in Md is beyond me. Most residents misidentify them with young eastern rat snakes
That copperhead is huge. I have never in my life seen one that big. Although I will say I did find a 6 foot timber rattler in Kentucky. He was hangin out in my aunts firewood pile and when I saw him we had a staring contest. He didn't rattle or nothing and I think he was just so lethargic and so logey that he had no interest in striking he just sat there and watched me. I didn't get to close and I respected his distance and let him be
There's a cottonmouth that I've seen in the creek bordering my place in Ohio Co. Dude was thrashing around in the shallow water with his unmistakable white mouth agape. That creek also is the abode to the largest copperhead I've ever seen.
What is the name of the place in Frankfort he was talking about where you can go see the snakes? Would love to take my granddaughter but I couldn't quite decipher what he was saying.
Well, you had to do it! We have been looking to move to Kentucky and have been liking every thing I've learned about the state, up until NOW. :(
MotherOfManyHorses I moved to Lexington on May 3rd, 2017. I haven't seen one snake, venomous or non-venomous, yet.
Thanks Grumpy old fart - Now I'll be having nightmares. I'm a former Buckeye - but I bleed blue - GO CATS!!! MotherOfManyHorses - where do you live now? I moved from Ohio - where I have seen more than a few snakes in my urban area there, and the only snakes I have seen here are dead ones on the road and a couple of rat snakes. In fact my hubby literally came face to face with one of them and they just sat there and looked at each other before the snake slithered off.
If you're a progressive liberal, dont bother. If not, welcome.
MotherOfManyHorses has
There are plenty of copperheads way north , the giant copperhead I found was in Louisville Ky in Iroquois park about 4' long.
Jefferson Memorial Forest is full of copperheads. I found a timber rattlesnake at Bernheim earlier this year.
You need to expand the area on the map to Bowling Green bc on the river it's full of them along porter pike.
There was a Copperhead snake recently spotted in Frankfort at Cove Spring.
ive walked up on 2 copperheads and jumped 2 feet every time I've noticed they were there I don't like surprises.
Great stuff, I hope school spend more time in their academic schedule for Conservation and land management.
How does someone get a hold of John?
shecky308 I saw a video of fishing on the Ohio they had his info on the description for that video
E-mail him at...john.macgregor@ky.gov.
You will find copperheads all along River Rd. Howardstown, KY in Larue Co.
cotton snake does not like blue grass ?
Also found cottonmouth here in Ohio Co. A few years back (beaver dam)
According to range maps for Agkistrodon Piscivorus (Western Cotton mouth aka Water Moccasin, Ohio county Kentucky is within the known range for them, albeit the extreme edge of their range is at your county, they don't live any further east though. In fact if you look at 7:21 on their range map it actually hooks over and has the area that Ohio county is located in the blue.... So they didn't say they don't live there, not sure where you got that idea.
The map agrees with your claim.
I guess we cant all be good with geography. 😁
@@toki89666the cottonmouth is found little farther East than Ohio / Muhlenburg ( I identified them there also in Peabody WMA) farther East in Butler county near Logan County line . He states butler county at end of video
Snakes are very beneficial, eating lots of rats and mice, my rule of thumb, if I am out in the boonies I leave them alone, no matter what kind they are. If they are close to the house, I might kill a venomous snake, harmless snakes are left to take care of the rodents. I recently caught a small garter snake in my house, no idea how he got inside, he was relocated to the front yard.
Exactly
Idk man it's like I've been catching snakes for fun since I was a kid and I've never been bit by them if I didn't grab them first. There are many snake enthusiasts that prove the last thing they wanna do is bite. Out in the sticks there is a certain type of person that say "the only good snake is a dead snake" and it's all pretty much the same person. Good rule of thumb is don't listen to clones cuz they just aren't original thinkers. Everytime I go to a rural part there is always this type of person and honestly it creeps me out. You shouldn't be able to tell someones personality by their custom Jeep. Imagine what these people did during the witch trials and other times of ignorance. There's a reason people reference the stereotypical hillbilly as backwards, it's Devolution.
@@collin9716 I enjoy the looks on their faces when I tell them I breed pythons. They have a real hard time processing at that point. Their "macho" (read: fear-based) response to snakes is to kill them. When someone who free-handles big snakes every day shows up, it really messes with their chest puffing. They all make that same frustrated, confused face. It's great.
@@collin9716 guy puts country folk down. Thinks we were spawned from monkies and calls himself bright. Ha
Had one for sure in my shed in walton ky definitely a copperhead
I’ve seen em in south Alexandria!
This guy is a herpetologist and he calls them "poison snakes". College must have been pretty interesting.......
No the guy who said that is the host of the show. The older man is the herpetologist and should have corrected him.
@@-cosmicrogue- Merkur is right...anyway
how does someone contact John???
Email him. I just found 2 of his huge tin sites a few days ago with his contact information, I'll look it up for you
That's the most agitated copperhead I've seen, out of hundreds. Also, the most agitated cottonmouth too.
We miss you TIM!!!!
Thanks too everyone at Kentucky Fish and Wildlife the best in the United States
You forgot Mitch McConnell.
I'm watching this video to see what I need to watch out for cuz I just got bitten by a snake today I'm fine I would be probably dead already if it was a poison
When he said rat snake it reminded of when I was partying at a lake and I went to take a leak and as I took a step back when I finished and tried to tie my swim trunks back up, I stepped on what felt like a water hose that was half full, I looked down and it was a HUGE rat snake at least 8 feet no joke. He didn't bite he just took off luckily and I ran like a little girl and jumped right in the water where my friends were haha
interesting i saw a Cottonmouth On The Ky River Palisades Trail A Good Three foot one Never saw one till then Very Fascinating
I Did keep my distance and took a picture of it
Ive found a few in Harrison co. Mostly by railroad tracks under the ties laying beside tracks , i have found 6 in one night at robinson dam fishing at night in august
Venomous!!!!.... God damn that's a pet peeve of mine!!
Rhabdophis Tigrinis, a snake native to Japan actually is a legit poisonous snake. They have glands in their necks containing poison as a defense against being eaten. They also have venomous saliva. Very strange exception to the rule.
I'm in ohio county, I would like to show you where there are some cottonmouths around here
According to range maps for Agkistrodon Piscivorus (Western Cotton mouth aka Water Moccasin, Ohio county Kentucky is within the known range for them, albeit the extreme edge of their range is at your county, they don't live any further east though. In fact if you look at 7:21 on their range map it actually hooks over and has the area that Ohio county is located in the blue.... So they didn't say they don't live there, not sure where you got that idea.
The map agrees with your claim.
I guess we cant all be good with geography. 😁
I’ve seen copperhead in Campbell county. Absolutly beautiful snakes!
I’ve yet to see a milk or corn snake.
I leave all snakes alone. They’re just trying to earn a living like the rest of us.
He didn't mention rattlesnakes and we definitely have some in Kentucky.
Just saw a copperhead today in Kenton county. Covington KY.
Lol, yup, have seen them in Edgewood(Kenton Cty) and Richwood(Boone Cty.)
Im TERRIFIED of snakes. How can I keep them off our property and away from my children? I have heard mothballs work. Is this true, or what can I use to keep snakes away?
Gonna tell you right now i clicked on this because as a 50 year old man from detroit but all family from eastern ky snakes are my ONLY fear. People not so much. Forcing myself to watch this
I watched the vid and still hate snakes
Same. I live here in Ky, and I hate a snake. I can deal with spiders and mice, but Lord knows I hate a snake.
Wonder if he got hit in right hand before
I was just out of truck stop in Kentucky every time I went out to take a piss behind the truck is a grass area I was thinking about snakes
I bet there's alot more dangerous things at a Kentucky truck stop than a poor ole snake,lol
I've found a lot of copperhead in Morgan County ky
Tail fades to black....breaks out guitar
How can you tell that the toothbrush was invented in west Virginia? BECAUSE IT'S A. TOOTH. BRUSH!
I saw some cottons in the Breaks Interstate Park a few years back.
Eastern ky caught a cotton mouth on my fishing line. Let dad take care of that. Meanwhile other side of the pay lake watched a feller wrestle a 5 foot long catfish for almost an hour till he came up all bloody and held that big cat long as he was up in the air
That Copperhead was definitely eating good...my God.
hey its Brian Burke,,,hes gone from hockey commentary to snake shows lol
What? No rattlesnakes??
We have them in Indiana so I can't imagine them not being in Kentucky.
I'm sure there are rattlers in Kentucky.
Yes there are. Timber rattlesnakes and pygmy. Have no idea why they weren't discussed in the video.
My grandparents lived in eastern hills of Kentucky i almost got bit by a cottonmouth 5ft. Grandpa shot it it was covered by little young. My dad seen it before me so he stopped me from dumping bluegills in the creek. I needef glasses.
My grandpa in eastern Kentucky would mow the yard they had and when we vosit there would be chunks of cooperheads 20 ft. from the front porch. Those hills have been there a long time. They also had a large cottonmouth that was a threat my grandpas' double barrel 12' gauge took cate of that. Years later in Georgia a territorial mocassin took over a pond some children and bit a dog a red chow it cried. I brought bacl my 12 ga. took care of it. Snakes aren't as simple as ppl say i saw a 5ft. canebreak at dusk coming out of dense woods to cross the road to get to a mowed yard with little kids toys and i must have ran it over with my truck about 9 times he made it across then died. It was a threat to the small kids i use to see playing in that yard. There were two snakes i never ended a beautiful Indiago in Georgia it looked at me and i at it we were both curious. It's against the law to mess with Indigo snakes they are so tolerate of ppl alot of ppl take them for pets they belong in the woods to take out rattlets. I walk on by to go hunting and he went on his way. Then i crossed path with a large coral snake it flicked it's tongue a quickly backed up and went down a hole it was near dusk.
You really should learn to read and write before you make comments.
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Hate snakes! Love the education! Thanks!
Snakes won't bother you unless you bother them.
I live in Richmond Kentucky and I just caught a cottonmouth
I always go by the head and eyes !
My uncle got bit by a copperhead next to his bed when he got up for a glass of water. He lived in a log cabin he built himself. Eastern Ky Letcher county by the way. He said it felt like a bee sting. Turned on the lights and chopped that beast up. All you snake lovers out there you are playing with nasty fire. I HATE the serpent and snakes are the only thing on this earth i am afraid of. And im from Detroit
Being from Southeastern Michigan, you were lucky, as our only venomous snake is the Eastern Massasauga Rattlesnake. There were all kinds of tales about how Belle Isle was infested with them back in the day, but it wasn't until there was serious expansion northward that folks started having encounters. I read about one person who went to the ER several times before someone recognized what was going on. For my part, the only one I ever saw was near Georgian Bay. They taught us in Boy Scouts about "the big four", and while I've had pleasant encounters with three of them, the coral snake is still elusive for me.
They forgot one thing to tell us if it has a round puople it is not poison . If it has a up and down puople it is
Poison
Panthers 2397 I'm sorry, but it's venomous, not poisonous. But yeah that's true, they should have mentioned that.
Panthers 2397 Oh wow I didn't know that. Is that absolute for every snake or just most?
Not always true with some venomous snakes. Some have circular puples
Panthers 2397 I think it's spelled "pupil". But hell, I am from the mountains of Tennessee, and I could be totally wrong. 😀
Most - there is one venomous snake that has round pupils. I just can't remember which one. I would suggest figuring it out some other way anyhow. Who wants to get their head down that close to a snake to check?!?
A Northern Water Snake very nearly lost his life this past year in my yard because of his similarities to a copperhead ;)
el rey 13 .. 5 no mo.. exactly , i see the twist in it now
I live just a few miles from the area in Daviess county that has the large population of Cotton Mouths that he is talking about, and there are a BUNCH of them there. I have caught a couple of them, but I know a guy who hunts there that kills dozens of them each year. I have tried to get him to go easy on them, with not much success.
Why? Why go easy on venomous snakes? That makes no sense.
Can confirm copperheads in Northern Boone and Kenton county.
There near danville
In high school I caught rattle snakes. Love all snakes and other reptiles and amphibians.
his range info is totally inaccurate. I've come across both these snakes in both areas he's saying there not found in.
Contact them he says he thinks there other places and would try to find them.
That's it I'm moving out of Kentucky.
Is he really wearing sandals and searching for snakes smh😑
Copperheads are not harmful. I have been bit 3 times by a copperhead in Missouri and nothing happened! Both snakes were about 3 foot long and very fat in the middle. Very very common snake in Missouri. They love being under old tin metal in the summer time....
I would have thought the eastern diamondback would be found in Kentucky
Kentucky definitely has rattle snakes
Timber rattle snakes here where I live in KY. An alot in Brenhiem Forest where I worked 16yrs ago. UofL actually tagged an tracked sum snakes. Dens in winter hold more than a 100 there.
Can we eat them ?? 😀
You can eat venomous snakes, but not poisonous ones. See my response, above to redchaserron.
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Yeah if you smell cucumbers and there’s no cucumbers around… that’s exactly what it is a copperhead…
Not just Tim...but @ 4:04 this "snake guy" also calls them poisonous....if you're supposed to be an expert in ANY field, at least know the basics of that field.
Love snakes. But I identify before handling.
Venomous! Not Poisonous!!! Christ that is your job people...
There's at least one venomous turtle from KY.
It amazes me that so-called professionals still don't know the difference in poisonous and venomous. There are NO poisonous snakes. Only venomous or non-venemous.
Did I miss the rattlesnake?
You guys have no idea how lucky you are. Those things are docile. Try that shit with an eastern brown or gwardar and see how your day ends.
That's a salt and pepper king snake killing an eastern hog nose. It's not a copper head.
did he say baby copperheads eat insects???
Yes, because they do.
That is correct
Me and my buddy found a baby copperhead and his dog almost got bit and my buddy was 6 inches away from picking it up and I said wait it’s a copperhead and his dad was weed eating so he chopped it up with the weed eater
Always wear flip flops when hunting snakes
While driving a thirty ton tractor !
That one is real squirly.
I live right next to Adair wma in boone county and killed a copperhead with the lawnmower while working on the church property bordering the WMA. They are in boone co for sure.
Can i email a picture and get an identification found two baby snakes in my yard... My 2 year old wasnt scared wanted to hold them.... I cant tell much about them have pictures... Also have 4 children that play in this yard.. Please comment a email
Tim, Tim, Tim of all folks you should know these are VENOMOUS snakes....not poisonous. There are no poisonous snakes.
In the herp world, we call them Hershey kisses, college is so unnecessary.
If it doesn't rattle it's a copperhead.
Most snakes are venomous. I have seen a snake breeder show us, a snake that is both poisonous and venomous. But maybe 99% of the snakes have venom. I don't understand how the person who is narrating this video, isn't better informed. I have seen this mistake many times. Their is snake that has rear fangs, and a moderate dose of venom. Normally not an issue with most people.
You are correct the snake is called an eastern hog nose. Not a copper head. It's fangs are set back in the head witch makes it almost impossible to bite a human . There main diet are toad frogs . The rear mounted fangs puncture the frog and realise the air and paralyze the toad. A toad will suck air in and inflate it's body .making it harder swallow. When it feels threatened.
Dude you are dead wrong!! Most snakes are NOT venomous. In fact non venomous are 10 times more common than venomous. Your stating 99% of snakes have venom is laughable!!!! Not even close!!! Maybe you need to do a little research before you go spouting off obvious lies. It's people like you that don't have a clue of the first thing about snakes that give them a bad reputation. Read some books or at least do some research on the internet before you open up your mouth again!!!!!!!