View Full Version : Finally...A HOGNOSE!!!!
Since moving to our property in the north Kawartha Lakes region a year ago I have been waiting for the day we find a hognose....I am failrly new to Ontario and had yet to see one in the wild....and we look alot. Yesterday it happend!! Jason H came up to visit, and go snake catching with my 5 year old, Brodie. (Jason is Brodies hero...lol) Well, I have a few big rock piles in my field .... always a good place to find about a dozen garters and milksnakes! We are NOT short of those! Anyways Brodie and Jason were going through one of them and found two big milksnakes, a big garter and a HUGE HOGNOSE under the same rock!!!!! If anyone was watching or hereing us, they would have though we struck gold!! LMAO!! Brodie and I were squeeling with joy and Jason, had his hands FULL of snakes!! I think he was in shock he was so happy! He said it was the biggest hognoes he had ever seen. What a find!! and in my own backyard! WHoohoo....lol.
I will let Jason step in here and tell you more about our snake catching day.... I am sure he want to brag alittle too...lol :D :P
ANYWAYS....Here it is.....
http://www.ssnakess.com/photopost/data/510/7hognose_closeup1-med.jpg
I have posted more pictures of it in the Venomous gallery.
ttfn...
beth wallbank
06-17-04, 09:02 AM
That is one big hognose Teresa. Wowsers......Congrats to you all on your find.
jason h
06-17-04, 01:12 PM
it was a great day for herping! the pic doesnt do the size of this monster justice cause he is HUGE!!! and the smell he lets off is just as big lol,I was a little disapointed that he wouldnt play dead for us,though he mimics a cobra like a champ. It was a great day and im looking forward to Brodie and I finding more again soon.
justinO
06-17-04, 02:27 PM
Awesome.. Congrats on the find guys. I'd love to see a wild eastern hognose.
Stockwell
06-17-04, 04:13 PM
Good stuff Teresa!! I found only a couple in all my childhood years just down the road from you.
They are quite rare in Lutterworth and Victoria townships but they are present.
Unfortunately sometimes they are mistaken for rattle snakes and killed by ignorant cottagers, but I guess that applies to most snakes. Of couse Massasaugas are not known in our area up there.
Swampwalker
06-17-04, 08:38 PM
I'm comin for a visit!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! LOL congratulations
:D
python_diva_06
06-17-04, 08:58 PM
i want it!!!!!ummmmm...yeah...
Thanks everyone....but I wouldnt have been able to lift that rock myself...lol...it was way to big! Thanks to Jason :D
Hey Stewart...you are welcome to come on by and take some pictures of it before I let it go :)
Call me...
Stockwell
06-17-04, 09:50 PM
don't keep it long.
Stew, you know what it's all about. Take your pics and let it go
Swampwalker
06-17-04, 11:02 PM
I'm extremely busy right now, and can't make it up :(
besides I want the thrill of the hunt and the glory of the find. Talk to you soon.
Good job on the find. they are cool snakes, I Have found four in the past few years and none of them played dead. It makes me wonder how much you have to theaten them before they perform, they do however hiss loud and hood up.
jason h
06-18-04, 07:46 AM
http://www.ssnakess.com/photopost/data/510/7hognose_belly-med.jpg
http://www.ssnakess.com/photopost/data/510/7hognose1-med.jpg
heres some more :D
I will let it go very soon Roy....It is shedding right now and I want to take some pictures of it after it is finnished. I am alittle worried about letting it go in the same rock pile tho...my 6 year old is always digging around in there and I am afraid he will get bit. He gets bit by milksnakes and garters all the time....I would hate for him to be bit by this guy! What should I do?
jason h
06-18-04, 08:20 AM
I think your ok to put it back Teresa Brodie is still a bit scared of that snake aand he would never be able to lift that rock,so to let it go there i dont think will be a problem,plus Brodie doesnt want to handle the hoggie at all (it stinks he says lol).
sapphire_moon
06-18-04, 09:30 AM
Wow, What kind of hognose is that? Do you know if it's M or F?
WOW Teresa!! What a find! I've looked forever for a hognose and not found a single one! Plenty of everything else though! Wow he's huge! Gotta love the Kawarthas eh!!
I dont think you will have to worry about that snake bitting your child. these snakes have very large home ranges and i would not be suprised if that snake is miles away the day after you release it. I have found 2 on my property in the same year, one juvinile and one large adult and have not seen another in two years here. nor did i ever see one here the three years before that.
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