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re: Snake ID please
Posted on 5/20/21 at 4:35 pm to Jack Daniel
Posted on 5/20/21 at 4:35 pm to Jack Daniel
Common plan.
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Posted on 5/20/21 at 4:42 pm to UPT
100% and some are non normal patterns and color. At first site of those bands tho I see banded water snake.
Posted on 5/20/21 at 4:57 pm to Landmass
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It's been forever since I've seen one but I thought they were more gray which is why I confused it with a copperhead previously.
Maybe a pit viper but definitely not a copperhead.
Posted on 5/20/21 at 5:01 pm to NOLAGT
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100% and some are non normal patterns and color. At first site of those bands tho I see banded water snake.
Yeah, I fooled around with a Moccasin on a fairway in Daytona Beach a few weeks ago and it's color and banding was completely different than the ones we see around here. He lived in a creek in a pine forest.
I used to kill moccasin's in NC that looked totally different than either of those too.
I'm normally looking for the way their bodies lay on the ground when their pissed, how their tails look, etc.
I'm not touching the one in the OP.
Posted on 5/20/21 at 5:38 pm to UPT
quote:me either. Water snakes can be mean suckers. It’s neck and head are about the same width, and the tail is pretty long... banded water snake. But I’m still not touching it. To be honest, as long as it’s not in my yard near my kids, I just let all of them be.
I'm not touching the one in the OP.
Posted on 5/20/21 at 7:52 pm to AlxTgr
As someone who handles cottonmouths on a regular basis (caught two last week), I’m going to have to agree with Alx on this one because of the head. Though I have to admit that this particular snake’s pattern is one of nature’s best mimics of a cottonmouth. If I saw this snake in the wild without a view of the head, I’d certainly give pause before grabbing it. But from what I can see in the photos, that’s not a cottonmouth head. Banded water snake.
This post was edited on 5/20/21 at 7:54 pm
Posted on 5/20/21 at 10:19 pm to Boudreaux35
Yes, rat snakes can flatten their heads and even rattle their tails to simulate venomous snakes.
Posted on 5/21/21 at 7:20 am to LSUsmartass
4 pages in and not a single “congratulations on the rats”
Sad how this board is falling off.
Sad how this board is falling off.
Posted on 5/21/21 at 7:40 am to AlxTgr
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tail length
Yep. That did it for me in about 2 seconds of looking at the first pic.
Posted on 5/21/21 at 8:20 am to Tigertown in ATL
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4 pages in and not a single “congratulations on the rats”
Well, in this case it would be more of "congrats on the frogs."
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