Posted By: YellowDog
Copperhead in the Austin area - 02/13/15 10:54 PM
We have killed about 8 copperheads in the last two months in Giddings TX. They have just now started showing up. Been copperhead free for many years. Anyone seen an increase in copperheads???
Posted By: billyhunt
Re: Copperhead in the Austin area - 02/14/15 12:50 AM
Makes sense to me, use to lay telephone cable in Bastrop, now there is SOME copperheads there, not really to far from Giddings.
Posted By: Curtis
Re: Copperhead in the Austin area - 02/14/15 01:11 AM
The cats killed a small one about a month ago. They brought it up on the porch to scare the wife and kids one morning.
Posted By: krmitchell
Re: Copperhead in the Austin area - 02/14/15 01:17 AM
Yes is the answer, the copperheads have always been here though. Also found a coral snake in the back yard 2 years ago.
Posted By: Deep Sea
Re: Copperhead in the Austin area - 02/14/15 02:10 PM
I live in Bastrop and we have always had tons of them here. I could see them in Giddings no problem. We see some Coral, some rattlesnake, and some Water Mocasins too, but Copperheads the most common.
Gotta agree. They have always been there. You are just seeing more of them for some reason.
Posted By: stxranchman
Re: Copperhead in the Austin area - 02/14/15 04:27 PM
Warmer temps this fall in my area than normal have things moving around a bit earlier. Rainfall or lack of it can change patterns some also.
Posted By: colt45-90
Re: Copperhead in the Austin area - 02/14/15 07:41 PM
some what wetter conditions in the past months, so there is more food source the last 6 months, I found cotton-tail nest all winter long, or I should say my jack russlle found them
Posted By: Marc K
Re: Copperhead in the Austin area - 02/15/15 02:55 AM
Snake population here is slowly returning. Didn't see a single snake of any kind for about 18 months after the fire in 2011. Copperheads are easily the most common venomous snake around my place.
Posted By: shea.mcphail
Re: Copperhead in the Austin area - 02/15/15 03:07 AM
Copperheads are fairly common on our land. Hard to find them until you are pretty much right on top of them.
Posted By: 257.Bob
Re: Copperhead in the Austin area - 02/15/15 06:01 PM
I killed 13 last year in my front and back yard. Nasty little boogers. My poor dog finally built up a immunity to their venom. He got to where he would swell up and swell down in about thirty minutes after being hit.