Visitor to my shop lost his head

This large coral snake was in my shop in east Texas (Houston County) when I opened the door. As I went to get a shovel he slithered outside under my Can-Am just as my wife was walking up IN HER SANDALS with our French bulldog and she was right up against the driver side frame trying to put the bulldog into the seat. I about had a heart attack when I saw what was going on with the already excited coral snake under the vehicle. Just as I warned her he slithered back out into the shop and I was able to find him under some feed buckets. He was much larger than the ones I have killed at my home in Victoria County.

That's a dandy. It looks big enuff to skin it and make a hat band. You'll be wearing red next to yellow . . .

I’ve never seen a coral snake that big before, good job!

Wow! Only one I've ever seen was dead by the side of the road.

They don’t bother me as much as copperheads and cotton mouths. Cool snakes and i have had 3 in the last 5 years at my house outside of Nacogdoches. Got one with the shredder, it was definitely big enough for a hat band too!

Now reaching into the nesting box to find an egg sucking chicken snake in the dark... man i hate that!

Used to see those when we lived down in the Valley.

Killed one the other day on the back porch, but that one there is a monster!

Shiver me timbers! That's a Wower!

Killed one under our porch last week!

The never scare me until I see one. Red on yellow kill a fellow

A couple have been killed around here in the past few days. I guess the storm have them out moving.

Yep.

Sad.

I have killed 19 copperheads and 3 rat snakes in my yard this year but have not seen one of those. Snakes bite my dog, eat my eggs, and scare my wife, they die. Cool looking snake!

That's 2020 for you...

I used to be butt deep in snakes of all kinds, And then too many pigs moved in. Recently saw a big black snake of some kind in the front yard and got kinda excited. Wife said to kill it but I declined.

I've never seen a coral snake that large. I've seen a bunch in my life, but never one like that!!!

That's a big one! Glad you took care of it.

ringtail you getting it tanned?

Unfortunately, nope! Guess I'll have to wait for his big brother!

I've only seen one on our property (also outside of Nac) in the 30+ years we've been here, but I have no shortage of Copperheads.

Not a coral but came across this guy while using my skid steer the other day. Customer wanted his pile of rocks saved. I figured there'd be one in there so I moved slow. It was AM so I'm not sure he was fully warmed up yet but coiled like that I'm not sure it would've taken much to get my hand.

Hard not to fascinate at the coloring - Mother Nature is amazing.

At my home in Inez. TX, Victoria County, me and the dogs have probably found 4 or 5 smaller coral snakes over the 23 years we've lived there but I used to find so many copperheads that I had 13 in an aquarium from about 3 weeks of catching. I literally have caught or killed a couple of hundred copperheads there. Have had five or six dogs bit multiple times and benydril always seemed to do the trick. So far at my place in Houston county no copperheads, knock on wood!

Here's what we did -

Looks great! I should have done that!! Maybe next time.

I like that a lot!