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Re: [OM] Dances with Snakes

Subject: Re: [OM] Dances with Snakes
From: ChrisB <ftog@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Sun, 3 Jul 2016 11:55:58 +0100
Nice one, Jez.  That detail of pedantry has until passed me by.

Chris

> On 3 Jul 16, at 07:11, Jez Cunningham <jez@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> 
> 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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