Snake experts?

[Acorn]

Tonight while walking the dog I came across an obviously young with snake. About 16'' long tan body, with brown hexagonal markings on it's back. I looked up a copperhead but it didn't look like it. Tried to get a pic but when I got back with the I Phone it was gone. Any ideas what it was. I have seen a few like it around here. Dad said kill 'em on sight but snakes don't really bother me unless they're poisonous.

 

[Chuckbuster]

Fox Snake maybe?
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fox_snake

Or a Hognose
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hognose

Just guessing
Kevin

 

[sceva]

Thy looking here


http://fishandboat.com/snakes.htm

http://www.paherps.com/herps/snakes/

 

[Colonialgirl]

Maybe a Corn Snake:

https://www.google.com/search?q=Corn+Snake&rlz=1C1AVSA_enUS434US434&es_sm=93&tbm=isch&tbo=u&source=univ&sa=X&ei=bnjMU7GpKoySyATvzoDoBg&ved=0CKUBEIke&biw=853&bih=450

 

[Acorn]

Hmmmmmmmmm looks like either corn snake or eastern milk snake may be the ID.

 

[sebtool]

20+ yrs ago I hired my ex-BIL's brother to rip out an old tie wall and dig me some footings to put an addition on our house at the time with his backhoe. He was on the machine above the wall, and I was down below doing the grunt work. Now Mike was/is a big ol' burly Grizzly Adams type hunting and fishing outdoorsman extraordinaire, the whole family still spends months every year in the woods.

1/2 way thru the job a 2-1/2' long milk snake (see sceva's link http://fishandboat.com/snakes.htm, striking resemblance) comes out of the wall, looking to get away from the demolition team. :shock:
Mike sees the snake, and virtually crawls to the uphill side of his seat, trying to get away from the 'copperhead' hollering 'Kill that damn copperhead!'. Raw, naked fear. To his credit, no obvious wet spot. He's up on the backhoe, +5-6' uphill from the critter. If the snake had tried crawling up the tire, I think he would have run to his truck and locked himself in! :lol:
I grabbed a shovel and dispatched the evil reptile, didn't look poisonous to me. Got a reptile book from the MDC later, and ID'ed it as a milk snake.

I'm guessin' Mike didn't like snakes.....

I haven't seen a copperhead on my property for awhile now, but have a few black snakes and king snakes around to run them off. Had a 3' black snake in the driveway a week ago, crawled up an old elm tree when I scared him.

 

[contender]

Look up juvenile black snakes to see if it might have been one of those. They are not black as juvies!

 

[#1rugerman]

I've got a friend who's dad is scared to death of snakes, we were working getting some fields ready for hunting season one year when we came upon a green snake a little bigger than an pencil. Jim started yelling about a green rattle snake! I walked over and picked it up and carried it into the woods and released it. Jim was livid, he said that I should have killed that snake that it will come back one day and kill me. To him all snakes are poison.

 

[Jimbo357mag]

People don't want to believe there are only four poisonous types in North America and they are easy to identify. :shock:

 

[jimbo1096]

One of my co-workers was called to a building we maintained and when he got there found a snake languishing at the entrance along the foundation. He called me on the phone in a panic talking like a little girl about this monster snake that wouldn't let anybody in the building. When I arrived I found a 3ft long black racer, he was calm and almost tame, I picked him up and took him back to the woods where he belonged. It was spring and he was just out looking for a new girlfriend. I thought this big ex-high school football player was going to have a heart attack. Some people have a built-in instinctive fear of snakes, and just can't deal with it.

 

[jimbo1096]

People don't want to believe there are only four poisonous types in North America and they are easy to identify. :shock:

Actually there are 4 main types of poisonous snakes but 8 distinct poisonous snakes, Coral Snake, Copperhead, Water Moccasin (Cottonmouth), Pigmy rattler, Eastern Diamondback, Western Diamondback, Timber Rattler, Sidewinder, And a whole basket full of color variations according to region and age. Even the coral snake has color varations in hue and intensity.

 

[Jimbo357mag]

This is what I learned.
1) Rattlesnakes always have rattles.
2) Copperhead has that triangular head. (not in Florida)
3) Moccasin found near water.
4) Coral Snake looks like a big worm, "red and yellow kill the fellow".

 

[GP100man]

With my wife there`s only 4 kinds of snakes in the whole world , little ones,big ones, live ones, & dead ones.

I try to leave em be if they will , but around the house/yard ,they die.

GP

 

[cadillo]

People don't want to believe there are only four poisonous types in North America and they are easy to identify. :shock:

Not anymore!

Since Hurricane Andrew there a number of other non native species running amok in Florida. I recently saw a program on TV where a guy was bitten by a Green Mamba in his backyard just outside Miami, Florida. The authorities there actually had antivenin for that species, and saved the guy's life.

Seems that there was some kind of snake study lab that got demolished in that storm releasing a lot of snakes of all kinds, including breeding pairs.

 

[Paul B]

Ae back we were having some serious landscaping work done in the front of the house, The gentleman doing the work knocked on the door and told my wife something about a snake and she said he was totally terrified. So I go out and he points out where he saw the snake and saw a tiny movement in the grass and rocks. A closer look told me it was a Bull snake and harmless. I picked the little critter up and he was just as docile as could be. Not a mean bone in all of his six inches. Probably because it was a rather cool morning and he was a bit sluggish. I know we have a three footer somewhere in our back yard and I see his sheds. I'm thinking that one only come out at night. They will bite but it's just like a hard pinch. Just ask me how I know. :lol:
Paul B.

 

[sebtool]

I had to open my big mouth. :? The wife is leaving for work tonite about 8:30, and stops at the bottom of the driveway. About a 2-1/2' copperhead just setting there like he owned the place! Took a shot at him from about 15' with my old High Standard .22, peppered him but didn't kill him. :evil: At least he was heading away from the house. Time to re-check those sights on paper....
I thought it might be a good time to check the mail then, while there was still a little light left! :lol:

She could have just run over him, but that would have been way too easy....... :roll:

BTW, I'm rebuilding my front porch and was digging a post hole yesterday evening. Got down about a foot and ran into about 6-8 snake or lizard eggs. About 1/2"-5/8" long, 3/8" diameter. It was dark when I finished, so I let them lay. This morning all but 2 were gone, and they had been messed with. Soft, rubbery shells were in rough shape. They must not have tasted very good! :lol: