As much time as I spend wading through dense brush and high buffelgrass without snake boots or gaiters I’m glad I don’t run across too many of these even if they do make good bait or lure.





There's a lot of venom in a snake this size, and it's a long way to the nearest hospital.

That's a dandy of a rattlesnake!!

Cool!
Big enough to eat!

I am glad I don't have to put up with those critters. I wouldn't get far off the road if they were here.

This time of year we sure get to see the opportunistic side of yotes. Eating pears,apples etc. Tilled this up in the back yard to plant some flowers. First night it had yote tracks and crap in it. Same with a food plot I tilled behind that grass.

There is also hard lessons to be learned this time of year. With dispersal etc. This one learned don’t eat persimmons before dark. You don’t get a free pass no matter how pretty your jewelry is. Lol. Neighbor down the road likes his persimmons.



This one was lucky I wasn’t home. His future isn’t to bright. Cleaning up under the pear trees.

Thats a young of the year making the most from an opportunity. Coyotes love fruits of all kinds.

You Betcha!

It seems that any alteration in terrain is always a major attraction for young and old alike.

Coyotes will seldom pass up newly plowed or disturbed soil around here.

The same goes for freshly shredded pastures or cut hay fields.

If a field is worked today coyotes will probably be on it that same night.

They patrol these freshly worked fields in the same fashion and for the same reasons the raptors do.

Just like the birds, they instinctively know that any disturbance of the landscape usually provides a food opportunity.

You need to start milking those snakes. There is a good market for making anti venom serum.

Controlled burns down here have the same effect.

Yote, we have persimmons in limited supply here, but they don’t last long because everything that walks is after them.

I rode with a government trapper back in the 70’s, and he had whole persimmons preserved in glass jars like jelly or jam.

Cool tejas. They don’t last long here either. This yote was eating green persimmons. Can’t believe anything could handle those tart things. He was the third yote that had visited the tree that day.

A couple weeks ago my wife and I were riding some back roads and a farmer was cutting hay. Went past him and not 100 yards behind him there was a yote sitting there looking for mice and voles. They hear the tractor and come running sometimes…..

Red fox and coyotes are never afraid of the tractor. Making hay the other day this red got as close as 15 yards from us.

Nice looking male. He will be a good one when it primes up.

Nothing like mowing and raking hay to get the voles runs all stirred up with the little buggers running about all confused for a while. Easy pickings. Turkeys will be there next.

Great photo Beard!

I’ve had quite a few coyotes work fields like that in the daytime while shredding or cutting hay.

The sound of that diesel is like a dinner bell.

When you go electric they lose their bell

I got rattlesnakes-------can you milk them after you blow their head off ? LOL thats the only way I would want to handle them-----

No I don't think that would work well.

How do you prepare and cook yours Spot?

I season and fry just like fish.

The snake fillets are cut into small pieces and seasoned with cayenne pepper, black pepper, garlic powder, and sometimes a little liquid teriyaki. Then they’re dipped in egg and dredged in seasoned cornmeal. The nuggets are flash fried at high temp and topped with some fresh squeezed lime.

It’s pretty good if not overcooked.