Yellow-Buddy Racer
My appologies…it’s actually a Yellow-belly Racer.
The first I’ve been able to handle….normally a very quick snake to flee…and nippy when cornered…this fellow was trying to sun on a road. Luckily, my son and I came across him before another car did. I photographed him a few times before I picked him up slowly…I’m not big on being nipped…and he was actually extremely gentle.
I was able to get a lot of images of him….even with cars slowing down to site-see as they passed us.
Non-venemous…they eat insects, frogs, other snakes, rodents and birds.
This image is after I set him on the side of the road near the wooded edge…he just curled up in a ball and tried to tuck his nose down into his coils. The yellow shows why he has such an obvious name…....as does his speed when zipping away.
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Esther van de ...
What a beautiful image and snake Carla. You and Parker done a fantastic job rescueing him !
Carla Jandelle... replied
oooh Esther! we have been seeing so MANY snakes just in the last couple days…and soooo many that people have run over! we’ve rescued just in 3 days? 27 snakes! this was only the 2nd yellow belly though…and he was just fabulous!
LavenderMoon
Great shot of this guy, Carla… even if it is one of my least favorite subjects on the planet! : )
Carla Jandelle... replied
oooooo you know you want to hold him. just for a few min’s. and let it slither all over your hands. and tickle you with it’s tongue. hehe
Tama Blough
Nice rescue! Very pretty snake, too.
Carla Jandelle... replied
thanx Tama! i just wish we could rescue more before the idiots behind the wheel ran them over. we’ve seen so many beauties that have been hit…and the people do it on purpose. ugh
Tama Blough
I know – my stepmom practically ran after some jerk in a truck trying to hit a squirrel. She was ready to give him serious what-for. What is wrong with people?
Carla Jandelle... replied
they were beat enuf as kids? they have no religion? they have no respect for higher beings? they are mass-murderers in hiding?
you should have seen the ‘man’ that swerved to hit/kill the turtle i’d pulled over to rescue. he went allllll out of his way to do it? then waved and smiled at me. sickening
LouJay
What a beautiful knot! Good on you for keeping an eye out for critters such as this one, and helping to get them off the road. Its bobtail skink season here, and every year there are so many big sleepy shinglebacks just squooshed on the roads. Now how someone can’t avoid hitting one driving around town at 50kms per hour as is the limit…. I don’t know. I understand that on the open road at 110kms per hour sometimes its a little difficult (although gee – we haven’t hit one yet) When we took one that we had been nursing after illness and injury (yes, I have swabbed blowfly maggots out of a bobtails jaw and sort of nasal cavity with kerosene….sounds dreadful, but he/she is alive a today a few years on, and still visits)Anyhow , took him/her into school and kids in my daughter’s class said eeww, my dad runs hem over….Sick sad world sometimes.
Woah, that was a long comment…..Very lovely image!
Carla Jandelle... replied
i’m doing a nature program for the 5-7 year olds at the school i grew up at here next week (hopefully!)...we’ll be talking about things like this. if we don’t start teaching them young NOT to kill? how do they learn it’s ok to let them LIVE!
thanx LouJay….nature is the most incredible and inspirational thing we’ve been blessed with besides our children
Bunny Clarke
What a beauty. Splendid capture and find.
Carla Jandelle... replied
ohhh thanx Bunny! it was so hard to let him go…lol but? so exciting to handle this beauty and know it has many years hopefully to live
leoaloha
Wow living in Hawaii I have forgotten how beautiful snakes can be. Great capture.
Carla Jandelle... replied
until this day, Leo, i don’t think i’d handled a snake i’d have considerd this beautiful before
LouJay
And cropped, it would make an incredible abstract! I seem to be in abstract mode, and seeing stuff everywhere!
Carla Jandelle... replied
lol…don’t worry…i’m feeling the same! i’ve actually a couple images i’m leafing thru debating which to post for that exact idea. :o)
LouJay
Great Minds…and all that!
annalisa56
What a beauty. Splendid capture !!!!
Carla Jandelle... replied
thank you annalisa! he was a definately beauty…especially with winter starting to come in hard here
Adam Bykowski
Great color on this guy. Nice image of him.
Carla Jandelle... replied
thanx Adam…he was beautiful!
Randi Bailey
I wonder how many chances God gives to the “sick” people described above. Surely it’s about chances for them to change before it is too late? Wonderful racer picture-never seen a yellow belly one, or one curled up in quite that way. Thank you for being from the other side of the human lot!
Carla Jandelle... replied
at least God is the one who has to do the forgiving and second chancing…if it were up to me? i’d not be so good at it….
this is the first time i’ve seen a racer ‘ball’ like this…the other photo i got of a racer it was coiled also but i think it was sunning….
this is a blue yellow-belly…..they’re only in a few states like this one
Randi Bailey
Yes, I know what you mean…about the foregiveness. I believe he/she is better able to forgive because he/she can look after the souls of the smitten-the innocent creatures harmed by meanness and small-mindedness.
Carla Jandelle... replied
my thankfulness will never cease as long as God is in my heart and soul….....
robmac
Great save and Photo Carla not my favourite subject though
Carla Jandelle... replied
awww Rob, this fellow is harmless. when you’re not getting bitten. really. :o)