Snake ID ?

[BrotherBart]

OK gang. What kinda snake is this thing?

 

[backpack09]

Boa Constrictor?

I may be wrong....

 

[begreen]

How large is it? Maybe a brown snake?

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[fossil]

Does it taste like chicken? Or more like Ferret? Rick

 

[BrotherBart]

How large is it? Maybe a brown snake?

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It is grey but that pretty much looks like it. I am going to break my Biblical tradition for the first time. I am not going to smite its head before it gets a chance to smite my heal. I come from rattlesnake country originally so normally I only know two kinds of snakes. Live ones and a minute later dead ones.

A bigger version of this one was what was sitting on top of one of the servers to great me a few weeks ago. This one was hanging out on the stack when I decided to roll back the rubber roofing for the first rainless few hours in months.

Thanks. And the snake thanks you.

 

[karl]

Bart, I come from copperhead country and I know what you mean, but if they're non poisonous leave them alone. They compete with other snakes for food. So if you have a mess of non poisonous ones around, that means they're less poisonous ones to hurt you. Aside from being startled when I first see them, I'm glad to have them, but not in the house.

 

[begreen]

The name threw me, but the description says they can range from grey to reddish-brown. After living back east, I'm not fond of snakes either, but leave the good ones alone.

 

[BrotherBart]

I have been surprised by the lack of copperheads here since we moved in. It seems that a delapidated sawmill and lots or rock outcroppings used to sit up here right where our house is and folks in the area referred to it as Copperhead Ridge.

 

[Jags]

... right where our house is and folks in the area referred to it as Copperhead Ridge.

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I think that snake in the picture is what we call "Wally no shoulders flat snake". Oh, my mistake, thats what we called them AFTER we.......never mind.

 

[gpcollen1]

Was going to say, Looks more like a milk snake but that looks like the pic there...

 

[Vic99]

Looks like a juvenile eastern garter snake. Some have that spotted pattern, but it's hard to say.

http://www.floridanature.org/species.asp?species=Thamnophis_sirtalis_sirtalis

 

[bruce56bb]

Definitely a Rattleheadedcoppermoccasin.

 

[begreen]

I'm surprised someone didn't say that looks like pine.

 

[Backwoods Savage]

Definitely not a milk snake, but that's about all I know...

 

[tkirk22]

Keep the snake if it's not poisonous. He'll keep the mice and bad snakes out of the servers.

 

[trailblaster]

Looks like a gray Ratsnake.

 

[gpcollen1]

Definitely not a milk snake, but that's about all I know...

Many typed of milk snakes - eastern is what I meant. Big differences there...

 

[BrotherBart]

I'm surprised someone didn't say that looks like pine.

Nope. Big hunka dry oak. That just saw the sun for the first time when I uncovered the reptile.

 

[JustWood]

Don't know what kind it is now but when it grows up it will be an EGG SUCKIN' BASTAGE.

 

[Hiram Maxim]

Definitely a Rattleheadedcoppermoccasin.

You mean Coppeheadedrattlermoccasin?

 

[cmonSTART]

Don't know. Try to find out the BTU content.

 

[BrotherBart]

Don't know. Try to find out the BTU content.

I will just get the BTUs from the skin. I went back this afternoon and he had shed it and taken off.

 

[cmonSTART]

Oh well, I guess we'll never know.

 

[begreen]

Jeez BB, you scared it right out of it's skin! Poor little guy.