Could be. I thought it was a chicken snake. The only thing I was sure about is that it wasn’t venomous. Ran into the venomous one on the other side of the property, a nice little copperhead. The past couple of days have been kinda snakey.
My main identification concern is usually whether or not it's going to hurt me. Some of y'all may remember when I got bitten by a brown water snake in my greens patch summer before last. When I saw the pattern without seeing the head, I just knew I was going to die.
Hubby is a Texan, I’m an Alaskan, where I come from we don’t have slithering ones, only 2 legged ones. Hubby told me, if the snake has a triangular head, watch out, it is not a friend of man. The copperheads I’ve beheaded had triangular heads.