Tammy

May 31, 08 - 11:21 AM

So Much For The Birdhouse

A couple of Blue Jays and a Red Bird were really raising cain out by the bird house so decided to walk out and take a look thinking maybe I could get a peek at some pretty babies. Never even crossed my mind there might be something unwelcome hanging out there. Not sure the thing that wore this coat is still inside the birdhouse as I'm took chicken to poke around and with the size of the coat it shed I'm definitely not fooling with it.

Tammy

May 31st, 2008 - 11:24 AM

Re: So Much For The Birdhouse

Lola

May 31st, 2008 - 1:49 PM

Re: So Much For The Birdhouse

Cool, I like your snakeskin! I bet it felt soooo good peeling off the snake.

mimi

May 31st, 2008 - 7:00 PM

Re: So Much For The Birdhouse

Beautiful pictures, Tammy. Wonder what kind of snake it was?

Also, love your doggie! He looks happy to be out enjoying the warmer weather.

Tammy

Jun 1st, 2008 - 2:38 AM

Re: So Much For The Birdhouse

Have no idea what kind of snake but I had nightmares about that dam thing today when I napped before work. Dreamed it had a V shaped head and I stepped on it in my house. lolol Then the thing was chasing me all over the kitchen. Crazy!!!! I have been here 23 years and I have never seen a snake the size of what that skin indicates. I just hope it's not still around. I haven't opened my pool this year and probably won't so it is a mess and I sure checked it out to make sure the dam thing wasn't hanging around in there. When my son gets home we are definitely going to do some more checking around because Mr. Snake can't stay around here.

Lola

Jun 1st, 2008 - 8:53 AM

Re: So Much For The Birdhouse

How long is that skin overall? I can't tell from the pics.

We were watching worlds most venomous animals or something like that last night. Boy that area from southeast asia to Australia has the bulk of them!

.

jitterbug

Jun 1st, 2008 - 9:22 AM

Re: So Much For The Birdhouse

hey tammy
you are brave, really brave.

that thing looks huge . . .

ray

Jun 1st, 2008 - 12:26 PM

Re: So Much For The Birdhouse

ssssssssssssscary. No worries there Tammy. Snakes normally do not want to attack humans. But since you seem sssssso ssssssscared, I have provided a link for you below to educate you about Tennessee ssssnakes. Happy reading and happy birding. talk to you...

"Staying Safe From Snakes in Tennessee":

http://nashville.about.com/cs/animalspets/a/snakes.htm

Lola

Jun 1st, 2008 - 4:30 PM

Re: So Much For The Birdhouse

Cool link Ray. How much do shed snake skin patterns resemble their owners? (paracme?)

Here's a kind of cute story about squirrels using shed snake skins. http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2007/12/071219130305.htm

Tammy

Jun 1st, 2008 - 9:43 PM

Re: So Much For The Birdhouse

LOLOL @ Ray Normally not that scared of snakes. Remember I'm the one that grabbed a snake in my kitchen drawer that was about 3ft long and took him outside. Got bit about 3 times in the process. Of course I was sick as a dog about 2 days later with flu like symptoms. Everyone thought I was crazy but when something invades your house it makes things a bit different. Get it out or sleep in fear.

Anyways this snakeskin looks like this snake is about 3 or 4 times the size of the last one I grabbed and that makes him untouchable by me. Also he's too close to my porch and deck where I tend to spend quite a bit of time so he has got to be found and gone. Since I refused to kill that snake I pulled out of my house and let him go right out by the garage it may be the same one that has just grown even bigger and thinks I don't mind him hanging around.

No doubt he was after the baby birds in the birdhouse. He may have got some of them but he didn't get one as I found him this morning in the Butterfly Bush beside the Tree that covers the birdhouse. Yeah I was back out there poking around. lol Got some great pics of the little BlueJay. Will post as soon as I get time.

Tammy

Jun 1st, 2008 - 10:28 PM

Re: So Much For The Birdhouse

Tammy

Jun 2nd, 2008 - 1:01 AM

Re: So Much For The Birdhouse

oldtimer

Jun 2nd, 2008 - 5:55 AM

snakes are good !!!!

they chased away all the other rodents that wanted to eat the babies.Why would a snake want to hurt you ???? they are just there doin' their job....hehehe since you 1st mentioned the snake I was at a friend's house and mentioned snakes and she said there were none around.She has a very nice garden with lots of big stones around.We went to look and found about 10 in 1 minute.They are everywhere but you hardly see them and they aren't up all night howling...hehehe

Tammy

Jun 2nd, 2008 - 8:06 AM

Re: So Much For The Birdhouse

OT I can handle a small chicken snake or a Black Racer but when they get this large I want no part of them. Especially with the thing that close to where I try and relax a few times a week.

Showed my son the pictures of the skin this morning and first thing he said was "whoaaa". lolol He couldn't believe we had a snake that large around here either. Told him to wait on me this afternoon before trying to investigate. I think we are both better off tackling this hunt together.

Lola will measure the skin after we move it this afternoon. Looks like he skinned himself going through the birdhouse hole.

CC

Jun 2nd, 2008 - 8:10 AM

Re: So Much For The Birdhouse

Tammy,
Interesting pics. I would stay away from that birdhouse too. Makes the hairs on your arms stand up. Not sure about your area, but down here in West TN and Ark we had a lot of rain this year. I am sure you have heard or experienced it yourself. I think that may have caused some creepy critters to start venturing more towards civilization (not that they have too many places to go now).

At any rate, you keep a watch out!

Tammy

Jun 2nd, 2008 - 8:29 PM

Re: So Much For The Birdhouse

48 inches Yes 4Ft Didn't see him and I'm hoping he is long gone from here.

Tammy

Jun 2nd, 2008 - 8:35 PM

Re: So Much For The Birdhouse

Yes CC lots of rain. We had the worst storm yet on Sat night/ Sun morning. Well worst for me anyway. Had 2 tornados right over us but neither touched down. First time since I started this job that I had to stop working because of the weather. Lightening was the worst. Heard it was more than 20,000 strikes per hour.

I told my son that all that red clay mud under the pool deck is a breeding ground for snakes. Of course it would be because it's wet and cool. When I had dogs outside that is where they stayed alot so they kept the snakes at bay but now dogs in the house. May have to get me another outside dog.

Lola

Jun 2nd, 2008 - 8:44 PM

Re: So Much For The Birdhouse

Nice yard art!!! Does the pattern on it resemble any that can be found in your area?

I like snakes, but they always make me jump when I find them, HA!

4 feet, oyyyyy

ray

Jun 6th, 2008 - 12:31 PM

Re: So Much For The Birdhouse

great pics of that there bird tammy! i am not afraid of snakes either. i have owned a few burmese pythons - one albino! - a ball python and a boa. One day, one of the burms got out - he was about six to seven feet long. i had this tiny siamese cat. well i was freaking out for two days until i caught him. i ended up locking the cat up in a large bird cage where the holes were way too small for that snake to get in. After i found him, i put him and his buddy in the bathtub to get washed. his friend was over eight feet long. well there was a white wash cloth hanging on the soap dish and - yup...they both went for it, i guess thinking it was one of the white rats i used to feed them....they wrapped themselves all around my arm and one bit me and man was it hard to et his mouth off. that was it! - they were gone the next day...and no more snakes for me - that is for sure. cirrus the cat has been living a long life...he is now seventeen and about he size of a small bunny - very tiny and cute. he lives with my siter now as years ago i got an apartment that would nto allow pets and never had the heart to take him away from her...anyways...happy snake hunting tammy!

jabailey

Jun 6th, 2008 - 1:16 PM

Re: So Much For The Birdhouse

Back in '98 I found a snake on my patio, and not being afraid of them decided to just let him be. The next spring when I went outdoors I noticed there were now 3 of them. The following year, on a warm sunny spring morning, Andy went out and came back in telling me not to go out; I wouldn't like what I'd see. Of course I went out, to find an entwined mess of snakes (looked like the Raider's of the Lost Ark scene) "snuggling" on my rocks. At that point, I decided they had to go, so I got a pillow case and put 9 of them in there, and walked them down to a pond about 2 blocks away. Darn things were like homing snakes... back the next day. Turns out they were living where the brick top met my aluminum siding. They were between the siding and the buffalo board, and would come out and "sun" their heads on the brick ledge with their bodies still behind the siding. When I was stumbling into my front door one night, and leaned on the door frame (yeah, a little alcohol that night) and got a snake in my hand, I said that's it. We rounded up 42 (yup, we counted) of the things, including one really angry one that had entered the garage and didn't want to leave, and moved them 5 miles away to a wetland. At that point I was so weirded out, we put the house on the market and sold/moved within a month. I told the new owner about the snakes, but she didn't seem to find it a problem. I bet she changed her mind if the creeps found their way back! It was a total of 3 springs to go from one snake to 42. Horny little buggers! My male MinPin killed 5 of them and brought them to the door for approval. Yuck.

Tammy

Jun 6th, 2008 - 5:27 PM

Re: So Much For The Birdhouse

Oh hell no ... no freaking way. Your a nut Jeanine.

I would have been long gone. Now I can handle one if I run up on it but no way is he staying around here to breed if I can help it. Woman I would have left that house the day Andy warned you not to go outside. That would have been it for me. Whewwwww you done gave me the creepy crawlies for the night.

Now all of a sudden we got Spiders showing up everywhere. Have killed about 7 so far. Weird looking spiders. Pretty darn big and kinda dark compared to the normal Wolf Spiders around here. Well this morning we found 2 before I started work so had my son try and do a google search to see what kind they were. Brown Recluse. Yeah I always thought Brown Recluse were small and no bigger than a dime but obviously that is not the case at all. Their bodies may not be bigger than a dime but the whole dang spider can get a lot bigger. Now let me just say I can handle just about anything compared to a Spider so I'm on my way out now to Ace Hardware as they supposedly have somekind of traps that lure these things in. I sure hope so or I may have to find a hotel.

I'm trying to figure out where all of a sudden they are coming from. I haven't had a problem with Spiders inside the house in several years. Used to have a big problem with ole Wolf Spiders but had the house and foundation sprayed years ago by Orkin and that put a stop to them coming in. I'm wondering if when I started up the Central Air it stirred them up from somewhere? Only started the Air up less than a couple weeks ago. Anyone have any ideas?

jabailey

Jun 6th, 2008 - 5:47 PM

Re: So Much For The Birdhouse

I am scared to death of spiders and centipedes, and had lots of them coming in from??? Last year I went to Menards and bought a half gallon jug of this pump spray stuff called Hot Shot, that you spray around the exterior of your foundation, so it kills them before they get in. The bottle says the protection lasts up to 9 months, but because of my fear factor, I put it down once a month from first thaw til autumn, and voila! no more nasty multi legged creatures. It's about $15 a jug, and I get about 3 months out of the bottle, so that's not bad at all. My dogs don't mess with the stuff at all, so it must have a nasty odor to them, though I can't detect any smell at all. Good luck! Remind me if I ever visit you to bring gloves for snake removal, and Hot Shot for the spiders, or I won't be able to get any sleep!

Lola

Jun 6th, 2008 - 10:10 PM

Re: So Much For The Birdhouse

42 snakes around your house? Oh my

Brown recluse spiders? Oh no

We're finding toads this year, I wonder what that means!

Tammy

Jun 8th, 2008 - 3:05 AM

Re: So Much For The Birdhouse

Lola got plenty toads too. They are so loud out by the pool I can hear them inside the house with the air going and the TV on. Don't know whats up with all this nature trying to take over my house and yawd.

ray

Jun 14th, 2008 - 9:44 AM

Re: So Much For The Birdhouse

spiders and snakes and toads ...oh my. brown recluses - they are pretty dangerous, yes?

k...tammy....I have the perfect solution:

1. Place the toads around the spiders and the toads can ear them.

2. After the spiders are gone, place the the snakes by the toads and the snakes can eat the toads.

3. After you toad prblem is respolved, buy yourself a male MinPin and place im by the snakes.

Problems solved

Author	Comment
Tammy May 31, 08 - 11:21 AM	So Much For The Birdhouse A couple of Blue Jays and a Red Bird were really raising cain out by the bird house so decided to walk out and take a look thinking maybe I could get a peek at some pretty babies. Never even crossed my mind there might be something unwelcome hanging out there. Not sure the thing that wore this coat is still inside the birdhouse as I'm took chicken to poke around and with the size of the coat it shed I'm definitely not fooling with it.
Tammy May 31st, 2008 - 11:24 AM	Re: So Much For The Birdhouse
Lola May 31st, 2008 - 1:49 PM	Re: So Much For The Birdhouse Cool, I like your snakeskin! I bet it felt soooo good peeling off the snake.
mimi May 31st, 2008 - 7:00 PM	Re: So Much For The Birdhouse Beautiful pictures, Tammy. Wonder what kind of snake it was? Also, love your doggie! He looks happy to be out enjoying the warmer weather.
Tammy Jun 1st, 2008 - 2:38 AM	Re: So Much For The Birdhouse Have no idea what kind of snake but I had nightmares about that dam thing today when I napped before work. Dreamed it had a V shaped head and I stepped on it in my house. lolol Then the thing was chasing me all over the kitchen. Crazy!!!! I have been here 23 years and I have never seen a snake the size of what that skin indicates. I just hope it's not still around. I haven't opened my pool this year and probably won't so it is a mess and I sure checked it out to make sure the dam thing wasn't hanging around in there. When my son gets home we are definitely going to do some more checking around because Mr. Snake can't stay around here.
Lola Jun 1st, 2008 - 8:53 AM	Re: So Much For The Birdhouse How long is that skin overall? I can't tell from the pics. We were watching worlds most venomous animals or something like that last night. Boy that area from southeast asia to Australia has the bulk of them! .
jitterbug Jun 1st, 2008 - 9:22 AM	Re: So Much For The Birdhouse hey tammy you are brave, really brave. that thing looks huge . . .
ray Jun 1st, 2008 - 12:26 PM	Re: So Much For The Birdhouse ssssssssssssscary. No worries there Tammy. Snakes normally do not want to attack humans. But since you seem sssssso ssssssscared, I have provided a link for you below to educate you about Tennessee ssssnakes. Happy reading and happy birding. talk to you... "Staying Safe From Snakes in Tennessee": http://nashville.about.com/cs/animalspets/a/snakes.htm
Lola Jun 1st, 2008 - 4:30 PM	Re: So Much For The Birdhouse Cool link Ray. How much do shed snake skin patterns resemble their owners? (paracme?) Here's a kind of cute story about squirrels using shed snake skins. http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2007/12/071219130305.htm
Tammy Jun 1st, 2008 - 9:43 PM	Re: So Much For The Birdhouse LOLOL @ Ray Normally not that scared of snakes. Remember I'm the one that grabbed a snake in my kitchen drawer that was about 3ft long and took him outside. Got bit about 3 times in the process. Of course I was sick as a dog about 2 days later with flu like symptoms. Everyone thought I was crazy but when something invades your house it makes things a bit different. Get it out or sleep in fear. Anyways this snakeskin looks like this snake is about 3 or 4 times the size of the last one I grabbed and that makes him untouchable by me. Also he's too close to my porch and deck where I tend to spend quite a bit of time so he has got to be found and gone. Since I refused to kill that snake I pulled out of my house and let him go right out by the garage it may be the same one that has just grown even bigger and thinks I don't mind him hanging around. No doubt he was after the baby birds in the birdhouse. He may have got some of them but he didn't get one as I found him this morning in the Butterfly Bush beside the Tree that covers the birdhouse. Yeah I was back out there poking around. lol Got some great pics of the little BlueJay. Will post as soon as I get time.
Tammy Jun 1st, 2008 - 10:28 PM	Re: So Much For The Birdhouse
Tammy Jun 2nd, 2008 - 1:01 AM	Re: So Much For The Birdhouse
oldtimer Jun 2nd, 2008 - 5:55 AM	snakes are good !!!! they chased away all the other rodents that wanted to eat the babies.Why would a snake want to hurt you ???? they are just there doin' their job....hehehe since you 1st mentioned the snake I was at a friend's house and mentioned snakes and she said there were none around.She has a very nice garden with lots of big stones around.We went to look and found about 10 in 1 minute.They are everywhere but you hardly see them and they aren't up all night howling...hehehe
Tammy Jun 2nd, 2008 - 8:06 AM	Re: So Much For The Birdhouse OT I can handle a small chicken snake or a Black Racer but when they get this large I want no part of them. Especially with the thing that close to where I try and relax a few times a week. Showed my son the pictures of the skin this morning and first thing he said was "whoaaa". lolol He couldn't believe we had a snake that large around here either. Told him to wait on me this afternoon before trying to investigate. I think we are both better off tackling this hunt together. Lola will measure the skin after we move it this afternoon. Looks like he skinned himself going through the birdhouse hole.
CC Jun 2nd, 2008 - 8:10 AM	Re: So Much For The Birdhouse Tammy, Interesting pics. I would stay away from that birdhouse too. Makes the hairs on your arms stand up. Not sure about your area, but down here in West TN and Ark we had a lot of rain this year. I am sure you have heard or experienced it yourself. I think that may have caused some creepy critters to start venturing more towards civilization (not that they have too many places to go now). At any rate, you keep a watch out! Email: negriblues@yahoo.com
Tammy Jun 2nd, 2008 - 8:29 PM	Re: So Much For The Birdhouse 48 inches Yes 4Ft Didn't see him and I'm hoping he is long gone from here.
Tammy Jun 2nd, 2008 - 8:35 PM	Re: So Much For The Birdhouse Yes CC lots of rain. We had the worst storm yet on Sat night/ Sun morning. Well worst for me anyway. Had 2 tornados right over us but neither touched down. First time since I started this job that I had to stop working because of the weather. Lightening was the worst. Heard it was more than 20,000 strikes per hour. I told my son that all that red clay mud under the pool deck is a breeding ground for snakes. Of course it would be because it's wet and cool. When I had dogs outside that is where they stayed alot so they kept the snakes at bay but now dogs in the house. May have to get me another outside dog.
Lola Jun 2nd, 2008 - 8:44 PM	Re: So Much For The Birdhouse Nice yard art!!! Does the pattern on it resemble any that can be found in your area? I like snakes, but they always make me jump when I find them, HA! 4 feet, oyyyyy
ray Jun 6th, 2008 - 12:31 PM	Re: So Much For The Birdhouse great pics of that there bird tammy! i am not afraid of snakes either. i have owned a few burmese pythons - one albino! - a ball python and a boa. One day, one of the burms got out - he was about six to seven feet long. i had this tiny siamese cat. well i was freaking out for two days until i caught him. i ended up locking the cat up in a large bird cage where the holes were way too small for that snake to get in. After i found him, i put him and his buddy in the bathtub to get washed. his friend was over eight feet long. well there was a white wash cloth hanging on the soap dish and - yup...they both went for it, i guess thinking it was one of the white rats i used to feed them....they wrapped themselves all around my arm and one bit me and man was it hard to et his mouth off. that was it! - they were gone the next day...and no more snakes for me - that is for sure. cirrus the cat has been living a long life...he is now seventeen and about he size of a small bunny - very tiny and cute. he lives with my siter now as years ago i got an apartment that would nto allow pets and never had the heart to take him away from her...anyways...happy snake hunting tammy!
jabailey Jun 6th, 2008 - 1:16 PM	Re: So Much For The Birdhouse Back in '98 I found a snake on my patio, and not being afraid of them decided to just let him be. The next spring when I went outdoors I noticed there were now 3 of them. The following year, on a warm sunny spring morning, Andy went out and came back in telling me not to go out; I wouldn't like what I'd see. Of course I went out, to find an entwined mess of snakes (looked like the Raider's of the Lost Ark scene) "snuggling" on my rocks. At that point, I decided they had to go, so I got a pillow case and put 9 of them in there, and walked them down to a pond about 2 blocks away. Darn things were like homing snakes... back the next day. Turns out they were living where the brick top met my aluminum siding. They were between the siding and the buffalo board, and would come out and "sun" their heads on the brick ledge with their bodies still behind the siding. When I was stumbling into my front door one night, and leaned on the door frame (yeah, a little alcohol that night) and got a snake in my hand, I said that's it. We rounded up 42 (yup, we counted) of the things, including one really angry one that had entered the garage and didn't want to leave, and moved them 5 miles away to a wetland. At that point I was so weirded out, we put the house on the market and sold/moved within a month. I told the new owner about the snakes, but she didn't seem to find it a problem. I bet she changed her mind if the creeps found their way back! It was a total of 3 springs to go from one snake to 42. Horny little buggers! My male MinPin killed 5 of them and brought them to the door for approval. Yuck.
Tammy Jun 6th, 2008 - 5:27 PM	Re: So Much For The Birdhouse Oh hell no ... no freaking way. Your a nut Jeanine. I would have been long gone. Now I can handle one if I run up on it but no way is he staying around here to breed if I can help it. Woman I would have left that house the day Andy warned you not to go outside. That would have been it for me. Whewwwww you done gave me the creepy crawlies for the night. Now all of a sudden we got Spiders showing up everywhere. Have killed about 7 so far. Weird looking spiders. Pretty darn big and kinda dark compared to the normal Wolf Spiders around here. Well this morning we found 2 before I started work so had my son try and do a google search to see what kind they were. Brown Recluse. Yeah I always thought Brown Recluse were small and no bigger than a dime but obviously that is not the case at all. Their bodies may not be bigger than a dime but the whole dang spider can get a lot bigger. Now let me just say I can handle just about anything compared to a Spider so I'm on my way out now to Ace Hardware as they supposedly have somekind of traps that lure these things in. I sure hope so or I may have to find a hotel. I'm trying to figure out where all of a sudden they are coming from. I haven't had a problem with Spiders inside the house in several years. Used to have a big problem with ole Wolf Spiders but had the house and foundation sprayed years ago by Orkin and that put a stop to them coming in. I'm wondering if when I started up the Central Air it stirred them up from somewhere? Only started the Air up less than a couple weeks ago. Anyone have any ideas?
jabailey Jun 6th, 2008 - 5:47 PM	Re: So Much For The Birdhouse I am scared to death of spiders and centipedes, and had lots of them coming in from??? Last year I went to Menards and bought a half gallon jug of this pump spray stuff called Hot Shot, that you spray around the exterior of your foundation, so it kills them before they get in. The bottle says the protection lasts up to 9 months, but because of my fear factor, I put it down once a month from first thaw til autumn, and voila! no more nasty multi legged creatures. It's about $15 a jug, and I get about 3 months out of the bottle, so that's not bad at all. My dogs don't mess with the stuff at all, so it must have a nasty odor to them, though I can't detect any smell at all. Good luck! Remind me if I ever visit you to bring gloves for snake removal, and Hot Shot for the spiders, or I won't be able to get any sleep!
Lola Jun 6th, 2008 - 10:10 PM	Re: So Much For The Birdhouse 42 snakes around your house? Oh my Brown recluse spiders? Oh no We're finding toads this year, I wonder what that means!
Tammy Jun 8th, 2008 - 3:05 AM	Re: So Much For The Birdhouse Lola got plenty toads too. They are so loud out by the pool I can hear them inside the house with the air going and the TV on. Don't know whats up with all this nature trying to take over my house and yawd.
ray Jun 14th, 2008 - 9:44 AM	Re: So Much For The Birdhouse spiders and snakes and toads ...oh my. brown recluses - they are pretty dangerous, yes? k...tammy....I have the perfect solution: 1. Place the toads around the spiders and the toads can ear them. 2. After the spiders are gone, place the the snakes by the toads and the snakes can eat the toads. 3. After you toad prblem is respolved, buy yourself a male MinPin and place im by the snakes. Problems solved