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
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!
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
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.
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 👍👍
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!
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
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 :)
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.
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.
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.
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.
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!
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!)
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
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.
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.
@@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.
@@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.
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."
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! 😄❤️🐬
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.
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.
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
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.
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
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
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.
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
Chacco /Copperhead love!💚😁!!! It takes a Real man/ woman (BEING!!!) to handle a venomous reptile SAFELY / RESPECTFULLY!! and RESPONSIBLY!! ! !!!!! ESPECIALLY in SANDALS 😜🐍💚👍😉
You snake hunters are nuts! I hate snakes. The only good one is a dead one. I used to roam all over NW Ohio as a kid and young man fishing, hunting and just venturing and never saw any venomous snakes and believe me I was always watching for snakes. I was fishing one day and a snake came swimming towards me. I left pole, tackle, chair and my beer and didn't return until the next day and then brought a friend to check for snakes and collect my gear lol
“The only good one is a dead one” is an absolutely horrible saying and not true at all. Snakes are extremely important to the environment and do not deserve to die. Would you rather have loads of disease-carrying rodents?
@@nightinggale6470 I don't go out of my way to kill them and live in NH so I don't see too many snakes and no venomous ones but I did when I lived in NC. I won't give them a chance to bite me and kill me
@@pappap1702 you do know that you’re far more likely to get bitten by trying to kill them/mess with them, right? You’re extremely unlikely to get bitten if you just leave them alone. Venom is a precious resource for them that they need for their prey, they don’t waste it when they don’t have to. They only bite as a last resort. So there is never a need to kill them.
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
Genuinely wholesome comment 🙌
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!
The best channel by far thanks guys✌️
I agree!
@@wingsandbeaksbirder2312 ⁰0
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
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.
I think those big gray rat snakes are amazing lookin
Underrated animals for sure
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 👍👍
My favorite are mud snakes. I just really think they are beautiful
Beautiful country roads, really enjoyed, awesome episode.
Love to see you out helping,on the road around your property or somewhere else, thanks.
Lovely Black Rat, and Corn too! ...and the gimongus Copperhead is spectacular of course.
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!
That corn snake was beautiful!
Man I love these damn videos.!!!
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
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 :)
Liked it before I even watched it, because I just knew it was going to be good content! One of my favorite channels. ❤️
Enjoy your videos.. can’t wait for your next one
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.
"Oh, hey. Black widow here under this log." *Yawn.* Let's go find some snakes."
Lol
What a great video! So informative and such interesting specimens! Thank you!
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.
That painted turtle is huge! Good job catching it
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.
Awesome video! Really enjoy your content.
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.
Next time you do a midwest trip I would love to see you target the massasauga!
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.
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!
Hi I'm a huge fan of your channel and I've been subscribed since you started your channel
Great video! Love seeing these snakes!
wow that copperhead was MASSIVE
If this channel doesn’t satisfy your reptile lust idk what dose
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!)
My dad made compost piles and in Highschool I found a nest of 20 rat snake eggs. They all hatched in class.
Found the coolest snake yesterday ... a scarlet snake (cemophora coccinea)! Scarlet kings are much more common so I was thrilled with this one!
Your videos are really good! I love watching them! Also, are Pygmy rattlesnakes common in South Carolina?
I’d say they’re locally abundant! They can be common in the right habitat and completely absent from large areas.
@@NKFherping 👍😃
Beautiful looking snake 🐍
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
Ah there you are popping up in my timeline!
Excellent content keep them coming!!! PS i just found my first northern pine!!!
Nice one!! i found the Copperheads way more agressive than the Cottonmouths! Loved Herping USA !! nice work
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.
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?
Sort of the same thing for me..........when I forget my umbrella........it rains cats & Iguanas!! Jim C.
@@jimc6687 😂☂️🦎
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.
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.
@@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.
@@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.
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.
In the woods with open sandals on, very brave.
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.
Woah that garter looks magnificent
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."
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! 😄❤️🐬
Awesome camera work.
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.
14:10 "Beautiful Rattlesnake Face" 🤣🤣
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.
“Snakes on the Road, can be Hit or Miss”. 😱
SWFL Corn snakes are so nice.
*copperhead appears*
You got me dude.
Beautiful animals
I would love for you to come up to Pennsylvania and try for some awesome milks
Nice job, Noah.
A late upload? A surprise to be sure but a welcome one
I saw a copperhead in Illinois about that big or bigger they are beautiful ❤️
Is no one gonna talk abt the deer that ran off the road at 11:27?
I thought I saw something but had to slow it down to see it. Blended in real well.
@@davidh2505 yep definitely did blend in rlly well!
@@bestlaughs6932 I saw it too lol
Wow that sneak is really pretty
Snake*
@@snakesstuff9077 lol
I started from Georgia and drove through rain all the way to St Francesville Louisiana. It’s still raining
Looked like something sprinted up the hill into woods after you saw the toads
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
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
How do you spot such tiny snakes while driving??
Nice-Vidios'Keep-Herpin
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.
Large and in charge snakes today!
Ya'll really need to come to the Missouri Ozarks. 1.5 million acres of national forrest/wilderness males for some large reptiles.
Are you using an old incandescent Maglight? Doesn’t look like a led light.
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.
Why does that Pygmy look pinkish brown at the start, then in the flashlight, it looks grayish green ?
keep on ranting i have learned alot about snakes watching your video,s
2nd box turtle had the colors of a three toed eastern hybrid
Still haven't found a pygmy in southern SC and been looking for 10+ years
I was so surprised how big that corn snake was here in Tennessee they are very small
They get huge in Tennessee too. I'm actually holding one in my profile pic.
Where in north GA are you in? I'm in Dacula and am always looking for snakes, but can never find any.
PS. Love your channel! You guys are the reason I have a renewed interest in herping.
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
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
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.
@@bernadetteboyce I used a shotgun but yes same principle
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
The Carolina pygmies... how toxic is their venom in relation to the larger types of rattlesnakes you find in those areas?
It’s toxic enough to be considered very dangerous to people, but not as dangerous as the larger rattlesnakes.
Anyone see what I see on 11:27 on left side? Like something fast going in to forest
Awesome
Did he not see the deer climbing up the hill at 11:28
which US state is bushmaster in?
I was the 91st like
Open toe sandals!!? If you were my son... 😅
I love snakes 🐍 come to Ohio!
Herp logs are always good ', birds are beautiful but they fly ,herps are earthbound like us , for now
Chacco /Copperhead love!💚😁!!! It takes a Real man/ woman (BEING!!!) to handle a venomous reptile SAFELY / RESPECTFULLY!! and RESPONSIBLY!! ! !!!!! ESPECIALLY in SANDALS 😜🐍💚👍😉
Am I crazy or was that a deer to left at 11:27
You close to Chattanooga?
at 14:34, I was waiting for him to get down on one knee, pull out a ring, and propose to her ; -0
Hi nfk herping
You snake hunters are nuts! I hate snakes. The only good one is a dead one. I used to roam all over NW Ohio as a kid and young man fishing, hunting and just venturing and never saw any venomous snakes and believe me I was always watching for snakes. I was fishing one day and a snake came swimming towards me. I left pole, tackle, chair and my beer and didn't return until the next day and then brought a friend to check for snakes and collect my gear lol
“The only good one is a dead one” is an absolutely horrible saying and not true at all. Snakes are extremely important to the environment and do not deserve to die. Would you rather have loads of disease-carrying rodents?
@@nightinggale6470 How about neither. I hate snakes.
@@pappap1702 hate them all you want (not sure why you would, though), just please don’t kill them.
@@nightinggale6470 I don't go out of my way to kill them and live in NH so I don't see too many snakes and no venomous ones but I did when I lived in NC. I won't give them a chance to bite me and kill me
@@pappap1702 you do know that you’re far more likely to get bitten by trying to kill them/mess with them, right? You’re extremely unlikely to get bitten if you just leave them alone. Venom is a precious resource for them that they need for their prey, they don’t waste it when they don’t have to. They only bite as a last resort. So there is never a need to kill them.
The biggest copperhead I've ever seen was around 4 feet j about the diameter of a golf ball
when are you going to look for indigo snakes they need help