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VoorTrekker said:
Drop and Drag...
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While I never use the drag and drop method, I did for that one test post above. I always use the 'upload a file' button instead.
Obviously you have been blacklisted so you will never be able to post a picture. I'm sorry, I know you are a good person and this blacklisting is unfair. :good luck:
 
@VoorTrekker

I use a program called Jing to capture images, but Win10 (and other versions of Windows) has something called "snipping tool" built in that allows you to capture any image on screen as well. That is presume you cannot right click and 'save image'. Then like others have said I use the 'upload a file' feature to post them.
 
Here's a pic of the last time it snowed here.

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Marker along the Chisholm Trail south of where I grew up. There is actually a grave at the corner of the property where this marker is of an old cowboy that wanted to be buried over looking the trail.

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Memorial to the cowboys and the many cattle drives. This is in my home town.
 
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@VoorTrekker Yet another reason to resize photos... This photo was 3.1MB in size originally, it would have given me a file to big error. After I resized it for this forum it is 440KB, about 20% of the original yet still displays fine. The forum almost always gives me "file to big" errors on photos from my phone or camera if I don't resize them. I use a free photo program called "GIMP". Haertig told me about it. It's a great photo manipulation program, extremely versatile. Resizing a photo for posting here is very simple and takes about 20 seconds.


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Peanut said:
@VoorTrekker Yet another reason to resize photos... This photo was 3.1MB in size originally, it would have given me a file to big error. After I resized it for this forum it is 440KB, about 20% of the original yet still displays fine. The forum almost always gives me "file to big" errors on photos from my phone or camera if I don't resize them. I use a free photo program called "GIMP". Haertig told me about it. It's a great photo manipulation program, extremely versatile. Resizing a photo for posting here is very simple and takes about 20 seconds.


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I always resize by pixels, usually somewhere between 600-900 pixels wide. I do this by right clicking on the image and 'open with' MS Paint then using the resize tool and click pixels.

This image was originally 5,000 pixels wide and would also have given me an error.

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Peanut said:
@mulescj8 What are you taking a picture of? The Toxicodendron radicans on the left the Lespedeza virginica on the right or the unidentifiable snake underneath? ;)
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I identified the snake, it was in no mood to be petted lol nor did I want to pet it. I did move it off the walking track so no one would kill it or get bite by it.
 
zoomzoom said:
Northern Banded Water Snake? We have lots of them. Not poisonous but can be mean.
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I thought it was a water snake at first also until I got closer.

Actually it’s really hard to see it clearly but this one is a copperhead in East Tennessee. The markings are the classic hour glass shape even though it doesn’t show up well in this picture, I wish I had got one of it in the open. I was literally about 2 ft from it. It was sunning on a cool day. It’s an older snake and had lost the yellow tip the young ones have. But I could clearing see the markings and the pits and it showed me its mouth as to say leave me alone. It was only about 18” long and about 2 1/2” in diameter.
 
mulescj8 said:
I thought it was a water snake at first also until I got closer.

Actually it’s really hard to see it clearly but this one is a copperhead in East Tennessee. The markings are the classic hour glass shape even though it doesn’t show up well in this picture, I wish I had got one of it in the open. I was literally about 2 ft from it. It was sunning on a cool day. It’s an older snake and had lost the yellow tip the young ones have. But I could clearing see the markings and the pits and it showed me its mouth as to say leave me alone. It was only about 18” long and about 2 1/2” in diameter.
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Good for you, too many people kill snakes.I didn't see it till yall said it was a snake.
 
mulescj8 said:
I thought it was a water snake at first also until I got closer.

Actually it’s really hard to see it clearly but this one is a copperhead in East Tennessee. The markings are the classic hour glass shape even though it doesn’t show up well in this picture, I wish I had got one of it in the open. I was literally about 2 ft from it. It was sunning on a cool day. It’s an older snake and had lost the yellow tip the young ones have. But I could clearing see the markings and the pits and it showed me its mouth as to say leave me alone. It was only about 18” long and about 2 1/2” in diameter.
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Typical size for a copperhead. Short and fat. But they are mean.
 
Meerkat said:
Good for you, too many people kill snakes.I didn't see it till yall said it was a snake.
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I won’t kill one unless I have no choice, I prefer to just leave them alone or relocate them away from people no matter what kind of snake it is. My wife just shakes her head at me because I will stop the truck in the middle of the road to move a snake off the road lol.
 
Sorry guys...this is where I have to disagree with my dear friends..
I've seen too many kids bitten by copperheads..
I have several family members that have been bitten by copperheads..

Let me just say ..it's not pretty and pain is " shoot me , put me out of my misery " kind of suffering.

Soooo.. it would be dead if I encountered it.

They are aggressive and mean.

Dangerous.

Jim
 
mulescj8 said:
I won’t kill one unless I have no choice, I prefer to just leave them alone or relocate them away from people no matter what kind of snake it is. My wife just shakes her head at me because I will stop the truck in the middle of the road to move a snake off the road lol.
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Mules [ like your avatar naame,' we love long ears'.],

We bought this for them about 2 years ago. They were eating our peeps and eggs.Hubby really likes it. Grabber works great. He takes to woods and lets em go.

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Nonvenomous ones I'll leave alone (other than moving them away from the house so the next person doesn't have a heart attack after seeing it like I just did). Venomous ones near the house are dispatched to meet their maker. I've never had to dispatch one here in Colorado (they're rare here), but back in Texas I had to a couple of times. I can't see leaving something that could severely injure your family or friends sitting right there alongside the house. Vampire bats, wolverines and great whites - yeah, they all gotta go too.
 
phideaux said:
Sorry guys...this is where I have to disagree with my dear friends..
I've seen too many kids bitten by copperheads..
I have several family members that have been bitten by copperheads..

Let me just say ..it's not pretty and pain is " shoot me , put me out of my misery " kind of suffering.

Soooo.. it would be dead if I encountered it.

They are aggressive and mean.

Dangerous.

Jim
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We were lucky all of us kids mama and aunts kids ' 10 of us ' ran over them in woords, swam with them and never got bit. Mama did but it was wrapped around her leg after she pushed in clutch so she agitated.It was a big one according to fang marks. Almost lost her leg.

We also had a 10 acre 45 feet deep in middle lake and none of our custermers who paid to fish or rented our boats got bit either. Snakes would follow the boat but left people alone after a crack on the head by boat paddle .
But mama was an ex city slicker animal lover. She really went after the hunters sneaking onto our property. Firing her 38 wonder she didn't shoot a plane down.:ghostly:firing up like that.I never saw a single rat or other rodants either, snakes got em.
 
Even if I had wanted to do away with the above mentioned snake I couldn’t. I didn’t have anything big enough to kill it and I couldn’t shoot it because it was in a city park. So next best thing was to herd it away from people. It’s in an area it’s extremely doubtful a kid would be in that part of the walking track. If the turtles, black snakes or owls don’t get it the hawks probably will. I’m not beyond doing away with a venomous snake, I don’t want to be bitten or anyone else bitten. I rarely see venomous snakes in this area or around the house the black snakes get most of them. I’m very aware of my surroundings when I’m out when it comes to snakes, the job I have puts you in their habitats and you have to have a respect for them.
 
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