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Herpetology Question: Name that Snake
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Posted on 05/14/2011 4:05:00 PM PDT by Lonesome in Massachussets

Does anyone know the species? He's sitting across the road from our driveway and my wife is terrified of him. Yeah, that's the ticket, he scares my wife. He's HUGH and SERIES, almost three feet long!



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To: Lonesome in Massachussets
If a Northern water Snake as others have posted:

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Non-Poisonous Snakes of North America

Active day and night. Frequently encountered basking on rocks or stumps, hunting frogs in shoreline vegetation during the day, or gorging itself on minnows and small fish caught sleeping in the shallows at night. Also eats salamanders, juvenile turtles, crustaceans, even small mammals. Will flee if given the chance, but flattens body and strikes repeatedly if cornered.

description 22-53" (55.9-134.6 cm). Reddish, brown, or gray to brownish-black, with dark crossbands on neck region, and alternating dark blotches on back and sides at midbody. Pattern darkens with age, becoming black. Belly white, yellow, or gray, with reddish-brown or black crescent-shaped spots. No dark line from eye to corner of mouth. Juveniles more vivid. Scales keeled, in 21-25 rows. Anal plate divided.


61 posted on 05/14/2011 4:55:22 PM PDT by hattend (Obama is better than OJ... He found a killer while on the golf course.)
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To: Lonesome in Massachussets

Had geese on the farm, they crap as big as a dog and several times a day...sometimes they would deposit on my side door steps..There is an old saying about food poisoning......it’ll go through you like shit through a Christmas goose....


62 posted on 05/14/2011 4:56:28 PM PDT by goat granny
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To: Lonesome in Massachussets

I would call it Mr Hissy.


63 posted on 05/14/2011 4:58:18 PM PDT by ThomasThomas (I am still looking for that box I am supposed to think out of.)
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To: FLAMING DEATH

that covers them all LOL


64 posted on 05/14/2011 4:58:29 PM PDT by goat granny
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To: Cicero

I am female and love snakes...had one in my front flower garden for years, than one day found it without head attached to body. One of the dogs probably didn’t like it...snakes in your garden are good luck....


65 posted on 05/14/2011 5:02:07 PM PDT by goat granny
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To: Lonesome in Massachussets

Do you not own a shovel? Why is is still there?


66 posted on 05/14/2011 5:04:23 PM PDT by bigbob
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To: Lonesome in Massachussets

Don`t Tread On Me


67 posted on 05/14/2011 5:07:45 PM PDT by bunkerhill7
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To: Brad's Gramma
"Dare I ask how you know this?"

It's hard to explain without comparison pics, but a male snake has a tail that extends gradually to a point (long tail) and a female has a shorter tail which terminates more abrubtly to a point. Watersnake varieties show this difference the best, especially Moccasins.

68 posted on 05/14/2011 5:07:45 PM PDT by BerryDingle (I know how to deal with communists, I still wear their scars on my back from Hollywood-Ronald Reagan)
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To: Osage Orange

Had one in the driveway this week. Its a common black snake. nonpoisonous and eat the copperheads and a lotof mice. Leave him alone. I picked ours up to instect him. Nice little fella about 4 ft long.


69 posted on 05/14/2011 5:10:03 PM PDT by oldasrocks (They should lock all of you up and only let out us properly medicated people.)
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To: Lonesome in Massachussets

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Crotalus_atrox


70 posted on 05/14/2011 5:10:03 PM PDT by Signalman
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To: BerryDingle
It's hard to explain without comparison pics,

Thanks for the explanation....and one pic is enough for me. I can't even believe I clicked on to this thread. :)

71 posted on 05/14/2011 5:14:55 PM PDT by Brad’s Gramma (Where do YOU stand in your relationship with God???)
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To: bigbob

It’s across the road, not on my property. If it is a northern watersnake, which it most likely is, they are aggressive and nasty. It’s on the edge of a large tract of boggy woodland, a couple hundred acres and there’s about a square mile of boggy woodland just east the pond which just east of my property. If I kill him, another one will just show up. (But in over seven years in this place, I’ve never seen one before.) Anyway, my wife has made a solemn vow to run him over to protect her beloved goslings.


72 posted on 05/14/2011 5:16:20 PM PDT by Lonesome in Massachussets (Somewhere in Kenya a village is missing its idiot)
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To: lastchance

Ya seen em in action I see!!


73 posted on 05/14/2011 5:17:53 PM PDT by Lees Swrd ("Arms discourage and keep the invader and plunderer in awe and preserve order in the world as well")
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To: Lonesome in Massachussets

Ceaser.

Well, you said “name the snake” didn’t you?


74 posted on 05/14/2011 5:18:11 PM PDT by NCC-1701 (In Memphis on January 20, 2009, pump price were $1.49. We all know what happened after that.)
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To: Sacajaweau

No way! If it was a black racer it would be carrying a flat screen TV!


75 posted on 05/14/2011 5:18:47 PM PDT by Former Fetus
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To: Lonesome in Massachussets

Hard to say for sure from that crummy picture but it might be a king snake.


76 posted on 05/14/2011 5:19:33 PM PDT by calex59
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To: Lonesome in Massachussets

At first glance, I’d say it’s a “shovel ready” project.


77 posted on 05/14/2011 5:20:07 PM PDT by Salvavida (The restoration of the U.S.A. starts with filling the pews at every Bible-believing church.)
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To: Lonesome in Massachussets
Name that Snake

Trouser

Stay out of Harlem

78 posted on 05/14/2011 5:23:46 PM PDT by bigheadfred (Beat me, Bite me...Make Me Write Bad Checks)
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To: Lonesome in Massachussets
I don't have herpes but that looks like GASP!

VOLDEMORT!

79 posted on 05/14/2011 5:25:39 PM PDT by Young Werther ("Quae cum ita sunt" Since these things are so!)
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To: Lonesome in Massachussets

No expert, but I’d say a common black banded water snake. Too bad your photo didn’t show more of its head......But then, again, a lot of snake species show up far outside their normal range as amateur herpitologists release their “pets” when they become inconvenient..... >PS


80 posted on 05/14/2011 5:33:36 PM PDT by PiperShade
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