More Buttons & a HUGE Snake!

[The Rebel]

Went back to my virgin site fir a bit today. Got 9 more buttons, part of a buckle & a tiny thimble. Also found this broken bottle, any Ideas on what type it was?

On the way back out I saw this white colored object that looed out of place, so I wandered over to it & stopped dead in my tracks! Thank God this was dead, must have been 5' long & about as thick as a baseball bat. I'm not sure what it was any ideas? Python. Boa, Eastern Rattlesnake?

 

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[vpnavy]

Geeez, I just hate snakes when MD'ng The Rebel !

 

[jewelerguy]

I don't know much about snakes, but the shape of the head reminds me of some kind of constrictor

 

[jodee89]

Maybe a pet snake that got loose...nice finds by the way. HH.

 

[nov2101]

Nice finds...as far as for the snake,,,, round eyes good / safe...slant eyes poisonous,

 

[stewielouie]

It darn sure looks like a boa of some sort, he is not native to up there thats for sure

 

[Cycluran]

That is a freshly dead pet. "sigh" 'Wouldn't have survived winter anyway. A pox on the house of whoever is responsible for its death. ptooey! Nice pottery shards though. Looks like it was a great day for buttons too! Congrats!

 

[treblehunter]

Nice finds, I love those buttons. I too have been coming across quite a few snakes since I have been doing this (started in May)

 

[Flathead25]

Pretty sure its a Burmese Python. Definiteley NOT native to the US! People get them as pets not realizing they grow to over 20 ft. I'm sure someone got tired of buying frozen rats for it to eat and let it loose. They don't do well in colder climates but they have become almost commonplace in the Florida Everglades. They are breeding and thriving down there. All because of ignorant pet owners. What a waste!

 

[Bubba65]

Rebel some nice digs for sure, Congrats

Bubba65

 

[megnpat]

Pretty sure its a Burmese Python. Definiteley NOT native to the US! People get them as pets not realizing they grow to over 20 ft. I'm sure someone got tired of buying frozen rats for it to eat and let it loose. They don't do well in colder climates but they have become almost commonplace in the Florida Everglades. They are breeding and thriving down there. All because of ignorant pet owners. What a waste!

definately a burmese the largest known was 27 feet nice digs tho sad about the snake

 

[The Rebel]

Thanks folks, I too hate to see what someone did but I gotta tell you I'm glad it was dead. Had it been alive I would not have wanted to have been it's prey. I can see it now a good signal I sit down move what I think is a stick & WHAMO!

 

[Cycluran]

Its prey...really?
I apologize if you are a very tiny person. I mean no disrespect.

 

[RelicDude]

Wow that's out of place I'm pretty sure that's a carpet python there mean snakes someone most likely let it go. Because where your huntin sure isnt Africa.

 

[TrpnBils]

Not a Burmese python at all. My wife and I are former zookeepers (me with reptiles specifically) and have been snake breeders for a long time. Part of our educational animal group includes a Burmese python and that right there ain't one of them... You found somebody's pet carpet python. Subspecies is hard to tell from those pics but I would bet it is a coastal carpet, with a nice pattern at that. I've worked with them in the past and they make fantastic display animals for zoos or serious hobbyists and we work with a close relative of them right now. It's a shame some idiot let it go though....

 

[RelicDude]

Here a living one deffinantly a carpet python

 

[TrpnBils]

FYI the pictures below show a Burmese python compared to a coastal carpet python. Nowhere near the same size and a carpet could never be large enough to do any serious damage to an adult (and I really doubt even a kid).
First is the carpet python and second is a burm

 

[rickn1]

Nov2101 Are you sure about that round eye / slant eye thing A western diamondback has pretty much round eyes. It don't matter to me much anyways, I see a snake I'm gone

 

[RelicDude]

Nov2101 Are you sure about that round eye / slant eye thing A western diamondback has pretty much round eyes. It don't matter to me much anyways, I see a snake I'm gone

Vipers have slit eyes and a distinct shape to there heads such as the western diamond back. Compare the eyes to a garter or king snake you'll see the difference.

 

[TrpnBils]

Nov2101 Are you sure about that round eye / slant eye thing A western diamondback has pretty much round eyes. It don't matter to me much anyways, I see a snake I'm gone

Its the pupils not the eye itself.... Verical slit pupils (think cat eyes) mean venomous and round pupils mean harmless.... HOWEVER this is only true for the United States which is why that Australian carpet python can have slit pupils and still be harmless, AND there is one major exception. Coral snakes in the southeast US are venomous but have round pupils.