re: What is this snake?

It was me. And I did add another post. I've seen them up close and personal at heads height in cypress branches in the Henderson swamp. I'm not a snake expert but I attributed that to an early April warm day with cooler water temps. The cottonmouths slithered up into the branches to bask in the sun. In a couple of examples I carelessly let the wind push the boat up right up to the tree. Concentrating on my position with the boat I looked into the branches as I started into the branches. I liked to shite a couple times. So I agree it can happen. But it's not likely in someone's back yard or along a shoreline where they can come up on the bank and bask.

So for me now, it was a rat snake or a king snake or a chicken snake or a milk snake or another of those egg and rat eating constrictors. I'm off to another topic.