Shannon, I think amazondoc got beat up pretty good with defenses to your post. Still, he has posted comments of merit. I live in southeast Louisiana. We have no eastern milks. I would see an animal like the one you posted and think amel corn/texas rat/maybe prairie king on the fly and grab "knowing" not a copper head, coral, or cottonmouth. My on the fly ID would give me confidence to grab quickly, but I would have to ponder over scalation, etc, to ID correctly once in hand to be honest. As an example, while working at the coast of Louisiana a few years ago, I spied a huge "garter" crossing a shell road leading to our lodging station. Needless to say this "garter" looked funny upon closer inspection. The hot snake flag didnt go up, but something told me my initial garter ID was flawed. It was a gulf coast marsh water snake. It happens!!!

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• Milk vs. Corn, continued... - Sunherp, Wed Jul 7 09:44:49 2010
• RE: Milk vs. Corn, continued... - amazondoc, Wed Jul 7 12:20:33 2010
• NA milk ID is practically an art form - Jeff Schofield, Wed Jul 7 12:40:44 2010
• may I interject here? - DMong, Wed Jul 7 12:49:01 2010
• RE: may I interject here? - amazondoc, Wed Jul 7 13:51:09 2010
• RE: may I interject here? - DMong, Wed Jul 7 14:19:32 2010
• RE: may I interject here? - amazondoc, Wed Jul 7 14:21:15 2010
• RE: may I interject here? - DMong, Wed Jul 7 14:33:00 2010
• RE: may I interject here? - amazondoc, Wed Jul 7 14:34:51 2010
• oops!........ - DMong, Wed Jul 7 14:35:37 2010
• RE: Milk vs. Corn, continued... - Sunherp, Wed Jul 7 13:16:46 2010
• Thx Cole - snake_bit, Thu Jul 8 08:55:24 2010
• Thank YOU, Doug! - Sunherp, Thu Jul 8 09:11:10 2010
• RE: Milk vs. Corn, continued... - DMong, Wed Jul 7 12:22:39 2010
• Doug, my man! - Sunherp, Wed Jul 7 13:18:57 2010
• RE: Doug, my man! - DMong, Wed Jul 7 13:30:23 2010
• Yo, Doug... - Sunherp, Wed Jul 7 13:35:27 2010
• what I think is crazy... - asnakelovinbabe, Wed Jul 7 13:45:24 2010
• RE: what I think is crazy... - amazondoc, Wed Jul 7 13:59:30 2010
• RE: what I think is crazy... - asnakelovinbabe, Wed Jul 7 14:23:33 2010
• RE: what I think is crazy... - amazondoc, Wed Jul 7 14:37:15 2010
• Get off the computer and into the field! - jeff schofield, Wed Jul 7 21:39:35 2010
• Run Toto Run - snake_bit, Wed Jul 7 22:33:11 2010
• RE: Run Toto Run - DMong, Wed Jul 7 22:55:52 2010
• RE: Run Toto Run - amazondoc, Wed Jul 7 23:43:30 2010
• RE: Get off the computer and into the field! - amazondoc, Wed Jul 7 23:42:00 2010
• RE: Get off the computer and into the field! - HondoAberrant, Thu Jul 8 17:27:37 2010
• RE: Get off the computer and into the field! - DMong, Thu Jul 8 20:05:39 2010
• RE: Get off the computer and into the field! - HondoAberrant, Sat Jul 10 16:51:40 2010
• RE: what I think is crazy... - KevinM, Wed Jul 7 14:40:56 2010
• RE: what I think is crazy... - JDAVIS179, Wed Jul 7 16:33:23 2010
• My Thoughts - snake_bit, Thu Jul 8 10:01:21 2010
• RE: My Thoughts - jeff schofield, Thu Jul 8 16:01:09 2010
• RE: My Thoughts - JYohe, Thu Jul 8 18:02:55 2010