Coolest obscure snake you've seen in the wild

Moccasin painted himself red and will F U UP

The only snakes I ever seem to see in the woods are Copperheads and what we call Coach Whips (have no idea if that's the real name)

I saw a coral snake once when I was a kid. That's about the most obscure snake I've ever seen.

Oh and a pygmy rattler.

Came across one of those mud snakes when I was a kid. It was in a drainage ditch and was eat a eel. Weirdest part was the ditch was from a pond overflow. How the hell that eel got there i'll never know

I've seen very few rare snakes. That mud snake is really cool though. very smooth scales and you cannot make them bite.

I did have a hog-nose for a while as a pet. To this day the only one I've ever seen.

Snakes I've never seen in the wild:

Coral
Racer
Coachwhip
Corn
Banded Watersnake(seent 5 million broad-banded)
Diamond Back Rattler
Pigmy Rattler
Pine
Milk
Scarlet King
Worm

I'm sure others.

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They usually eat amphiumas

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Thought you had misspelled something. Had to google it.

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They usually eat amphiumas

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those are some nasty looking little boogers!

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Mud Snake

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We have one of these. Ours isn't quite as red on the bottom though. He's really kind of boring because he digs under the stuff in his cage and doesn't come out much.

I'd have to go with the Gray-banded King snake (we have one off those too):



It's wild to see one of those on rock cuts in West Texas.

Scarlet Kings/Louisiana Milks are pretty neat to see too--they show up like a little red/yellow flag when you find one. I once watched a herpetologist friend catch a coral snake in Florida; crazy SOB held it by the tip of its tail and told us it wouldn't/couldn't climb back up on itself to bite him. No thanks, I'll pass!

Husband would probably say the coolest he's found is one of the many different types of rattlesnakes, especially the ones in Arizona & New Mexico. His favorite this week is this little girl (how can you tell from a distance?) seen up in Tunica recently (just shed):



Its markings were so vivid it wasn't very camouflaged.

One of my patients said that she will see ground rattlers in her garden sometimes and says they are very poisonous. What the hell kind of snake is she talking about?

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We have one of these. Ours isn't quite as red on the bottom though. He's really kind of boring because he digs under the stuff in his cage and doesn't come out much.

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Does he come out at night? One site I read said they were nocturnal, but I say this one around mid-late afternoon if I recall correctly. Probably look wicked under some kind of black light or something.

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His favorite this week is this little girl (how can you tell from a distance?) seen up in Tunica recently (just shed):

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What kind is that?