i live on hatteras island during the summers, and everyone here says that there are cotton mouths are in the sound, all i have ever caught in the sound are harmless banded water snakes, does anyone know if cotton mouths enter salt water, i tell people that i have never seen one out there but that doesnt mean they arent, i hate when people see a snake in the water and assume its venomous, and they end up killing something harmless, which where i live in inland north carolina is always the case as we are not in the cotton mouth's range.
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cotton mouth question
Drekkel
Aug 06, 2006 08:21 PM
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crimsonking
Aug 06, 2006 08:34 PM
Certainly they will be found in just about any habitat in their range. I'm in FL and a park near me is right on Tampa Bay and there's a ton of cottons. It's salty in some places and more brackish in among the mangroves there as the tides flow up into the creeks and vice- versa..
Curiously, just across the Bay in basically the same habitat there are none.
As they say, "they are where you find them".
I don't know specifically where you are talking about of course, but it is certainly possible they are there.
:Mark
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