The Copperhead

First of all, I was shocked to see one here in North Carolina so deep into November. I have never seen one outside of the summer months personally, though it is not unusual to hear of them. I was walking down a dirt road that runs alongside my home. There is a slight ditch beside that road, and I was tooling around hoping to find the black snake that I had seen around my home several times over the summer. That is when I came across this copperhead snake, slithering around in the base of the ditch.

The color of the copperhead was a brilliantly bright, almost pink color in the background, with the typical dark hourglass looking bands down the length of the snake. The copperhead was the absolute prototype of the copperhead. Perfectly colored and beautiful.

What was interesting about this copperhead was that it made absolutely no attempt to strike. It did not even curl up into the typical strike pose that pit vipers like the copperhead are known for. This copperhead had absolutely no concern over me or if he did, he certainly did not show it. It simply did everything it could to get away from me with no worries.

After a good fifteen minutes of messing with the copperhead, I finally let it go on it’s way. Figures that my experience could not be documented by camera, as I did not have it with me. By the time I went to the house and came back, the copperhead had made it’s way to where ever it was headed. Still, it was a nice encounter that just shows that copperheads are not the aggressive snake that many say they are.

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