Scaring Away Snakes?

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Okay, time for a weird question. I'm writing a new book, and there's a part where the good guys have to camp out in a place notorious for how many poisonous snakes live there. I know some animals get scared off if you make the area smell like their predators, like how a deer will run off if you pour mountain lion urine on the ground. Some birds of prey, like eagles, eat snakes. If my characters were to spread eagle poop around, would the smell scare the snakes away?

Some of the old timers here say that sulphur sprinkled on the ground repels snakes.If I remember right,in True Grit they would coil a rope around the sleeping bag with the belief that it repelled snakes.Snakes wouldn't be afraid of poop of any kind.Most just want to be left alone,plenty of snakes here in my yard and we all get along just fine.I never harm them but respect them.

How do you collect eagle poop?
Like, I don't think you'd just find it lying around and eagles build their nests in some out of reach places.

Urine contains ammonia, which could repel snakes.
But then again, I don't think I'd be wanting to collect it from mountain lions.

They could all pee a perimeter around the camp, maybe?

I really don't know. I do know that snakes smell with their tongues, so it's like they're both smelling and tasting poop!

Pee won't phase a snake.My son used to pee off the porch all the time and there was always some sort of snake in that area,usually a copperhead.Its a rural area,men seem to like whizzing off the porch.Never figured that out.

Hey it's great your writing a book, I always fancied writing ☝️

what about using some kind of device that vibrates the earth? They feel with vibrations in their tongue, and if there was a frequency which annoyed them then they might just float off dunno

Seismic snake scuttler ! !! yaaaay

Do eagles even eat snakes?

Edward Abby wrote in Desert Solitare, that if you have bull snakes around, you wont have rattlesnakes.

My best idea so far is to moth balls. Apparently they scare snakes away real good.

^ who camps out and takes mothballs with them?

I doubt that would work. Your best bet would be hitting the ground hard a few times with a walking stick or similar. Snakes are sensitive to vibrations in the ground, and tend to make themselves scarce if they hear something stomping around close to them. I once made a snake actually jump into the air by stomping my foot hard (checking for snakes, so...I was right.)