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Re: [OM] Dances with Snakes

Subject: Re: [OM] Dances with Snakes
From: Jez Cunningham <jez@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Sun, 3 Jul 2016 07:11:13 +0100
Since no other pedant has stepped in yet.... Venomous, not poisonous.  ;-)

On 03/07/2016, Moose <olymoose@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> On 7/2/2016 7:54 AM, DZDub wrote:
>> http://zone-10.com/tope2/main.php?g2_itemId=20332
>>
>> I faced down this little garter snake in my back yard while working with
>> the E-620 and DZ 50/2.
>
> Nice series!
>
>> I got in front of him and as he turned to get away,
>> I continued to move in front of him.  It must have been quite a sight,
>> but
>> it got him winded and he had to stop and breathe, much sooner in the
>> process than you might think.
>
> Aha, another useful technique to remember. Snakes are troublesome to
> photograph for me (and probably hard to shoot,
> too), the way they wave about.
>
>> Fearsome beastie, he raised up and did that
>> cobra thing once -- maw open and everything -- but I couldn't get him to
>> do
>> it for the camera!
>
> Years ago, I was walking for reasons of getting out, away from a bunch of
> stuff that was making me feel hemmed in. Out
> on a headland, no one around, sounds and sights of the sea, wind blowing the
> grass. Just what I needed. I intentionally
> didn't bring a camera - soooo.
>
> On the trail, I encountered a snake I'd not seen before. It was quite
> aggressive, forming a figure eight right in the
> center of the trail ahead of me, tail back, head forward, which looked like
> a great way to be able to strike at almost
> full body length. It did not, however, have the head shape of all poisonous
> snakes hereabouts, so I wasn't in danger.
>
> It had a darkish, blah colored body, with faint stripes - and a bright red
> head. Later research showed I had missed an
> opportunity to "shoot" the endangered San Fransisco Garter Snake. Most on
> line pix show a much more colorful body.
> Perhaps mine was one of the darker type, and dusty.
>
> A skunk also threatened me on that walk, but from quite a distance.
>
> Slithering Moose
>
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