Rattlesnake and Copperhead Hunting In Pennsylvania 2019 - Seth Tags Out on a Copperhead!

all right it's the second week of the rattlesnake season and with Seth again and we're gonna go up and hit our best spot that we found some big snakes last year last year we went real late in the season this year we're gonna go early it's a really cool day last year it was so hot it was was crazy but we've got a nice breeze cloud cover was a little bit a Sun trying to peek through there is a small chance of rain today hopefully those snakes are gonna be out trying to catch any Sun that they can get today and we are way way back in for sure I got her first snake just spotted it right on the top of that rock right there oh there's two of them two snakes right there might even be three looks like three three snakes or snakes looks like they're people yeah they're all little ones they have the blue eyes which means they're ready to shed I still have a black face black heads they're starting to rattle see notice how they're not trying to come after us they're just gonna go slowly down back in we're not even gonna touch these things so we know that they're not big enough to be a legal snake so we're just gonna let those snakes go right back in where they came from we're just gonna let those ones go first for snakes about we're at the end yep seth caught one too oh yeah there's a yellow face yeah nothing too big there should be two blue eyes yes there's decent rattle I don't want any rattles the games yeah they'll be shedding any day so we definitely have big snakes here because that's just found a really big snakeskin very part of it so far back in quite a long yeah comes right up to these rocks here that's the head hit the end of our line and found seven snakes probably nothing over more than three feet probably all black face except for one yellow and it's kind of strange it's a little bit cooler they have all been laying out on the rocks they're hoping to catch some Sun but it doesn't look like we're gonna be getting any Sun anytime soon just kind of strange we found some really big snakes some of the biggest snake I ever handled before here and we haven't even seen the legal snake yet could baby underneath the rocks still waiting for more Sun it's hard to say we also found some snakes at the end of the line which we didn't find any last year so it's just a little bit just because you come to one spot and you don't find any or don't find as many does it mean can't come back the next time and find a whole lot more here it's kind of the opposite for us so we're hit the spot that to get to these rocks we got to go through some of the nastiest stuff through here this is crazy just look how thick it is yeah we are on our hands and knees whoo you got to be careful what we're doing here but it could be promising you never know that's part of snake hunting when you're finding new places half of its just about the exploration so we'll see what we find oh yeah she would see you a two feet away I can't even see your two feet away I'll see what this looks like boy I look super snaky but we didn't see a single snake here just find this giant click beetle turn upside down hey start the clicked already how they get them upside down and try to click oh they blend right into the rock said he's found a copperhead oh yeah yep that's definitely a Copperhead then grab try and grab ahold of it you get it out on the lid yeah boy he's really hidden you ready yep that that's really cool copperheads pretty cool looking a lot of people see water snakes and confuse them with copperheads by far milk snakes and water snakes are so commonly mistaken for copperheads how dark he is because he needs to shed he sees he's not blue-eyed but notice how that head is just that color of a brand-new copper penny and it'll be way brighter after he sheds he's about he's just starting to get a little bit cloudy eyes and then look how dark he is compared to the rest of the body and you can see how the tops of his body they had the hourglass where the pinch of the hourglass is in the top of his back that's one way that you can tell from the pattern and if we look really really really really close we can see he has like cat eyes ain't gonna give you much room in that too yeah you might be able to just hold them in there yeah you could probably just pinch that end so it's not real hot sunny day little and that's another thing to notice copperheads are not that big around compared to timber rattlesnakes you know back his way so I guess that's not gonna work but we can get closer in Phil and see him in there I'd say he's about what a twenty inch or you're allowed one rattlesnake and one Copperhead there's no tag to be filled out for the Copperhead there's no size limit male or female it's just one Copperhead so that's well there you go I tell you what at all the rattlesnakes here we could see what the belly looks like we could just see turn him around there again see how that real shiny copper color there on his head compared to the rest of his body and we see those slit eyes and we can see the shape of his head so there's how we can tell a copperhead from water snakes and milk snakes and we are really way up on top of a hill so I mean I did nowhere near water I did not expect to find a copperhead anywhere near this place that's cool that I think that it's so awesome to see that because I told John there's a small one I there's a little one over here and it turned out to be this guy yeah that's pretty cool now you gonna tag them are you gonna let him go I know you were looking for a copperhead but oh this is my very first one I've never ever handled one before yeah I don't know what I'm gonna do we're gonna sit here to think about it we're gonna think about okay I'm gonna go over here and see if I could find some more well Seth said that he is going to tag out on a copperhead so we're gonna put in a little pillow sack tied a knot take it home with us you don't want to come on there to go it'll hold the bag there he goes down in there alright first Copperhead Congrats it's exciting yeah I don't think he's kill it out of that cool all right we're on this line we met Nick another snake hunter so we just kind of joined up start to look for some snakes right off the bat we found a little one here don't even see it worst oh yeah oh yeah he shit yeah he was pretty nice shed oh yeah real pretty Seth said he found another way blackface yeah yeah he just shit a little bit of a button that's gonna show you how a tubes if I can do this hard random snake in there he's not stepping real hard on him with his foot just enough to hold him make sure he stays up inside there this is a female I can tell by the bay you can kind of see okay we're just gonna release it right away I don't want to mess with it we got babies you can see how they just want to go away they're not trying to strike that young come after you once you let them go they get away from you yes just caught another Copperhead yeah that one looks way smaller than the last one oh I can see his head there pretty cool yeah I assume did pretty good from here yeah so there's one that's a little bit lighter colored see how those eyes just look like a brand-new copper penny he's moving around pretty quick yeah this guy here's fiery that was probably about 20 inches the same yeah all right there they are fast you

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Length: 14min 47sec (887 seconds)

Published: Wed Jun 19 2019