Can someone tell me what kind of snake this little guy is?

[338 Mollett]

IF they don't rattle it is a King Cobra !!

 

[HenWinter]

You do have the variety known as politicians.

I guess every country has this "variety". It's hard to imagine politics without it.

 

[Lucky Shooter]

Your yellow phase timber rattler is very common in parts of the SE.

Some folks down here haven't accepted that it is a timber rattelr and it goes by the ID of velvet tail and cane brake rattler.

Take your choice----I don't like them.

Long long ago we had another snake----the rattle snake pilot. This snake was
supposed to go along in front of the rattler and keep it out of trouble, All this was a mystery to me as I'd never seen one.

One day a guy showed me a pilot he'd killed-----along with a warning---be careful, there's a rattler near us.

This pilot very was quickly identified as a common copper head. I didn't want to burst his bubble----never told him what he had.


A Weldy

 

[Brians356]

There are some 26 species of Kingsnakes in the US (genus Lampropeltis) in a variety of sizes and colors. Several are referred to locally, especially in the Eastern US, as Milk Snakes, and are often colorfully patterned like Coral Snakes.

Kingsnakes often prey on other snakes, and out West the large, dark-colored California Kingsnake is particularly fond of rattlesnakes, so I leave them alone.

Decades ago I lived on a friend's small 2.5 acre "ranchette" in Washoe Valley, NV, raising goats and rabbits. One day his young daughter carried into the house a cute little wormlike baby snake she had caught, which turned out to be a just-born rattlesnake. That triggered a fire drill but by then the snakes were out of the den, so nothing to do but shrug it off as country life.
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[Leo Smith]

Possible corn snake. but their are lots of variations in coloration in rat and king snakes also

 

[Will Henry]

There are some 26 species of Kingsnakes in the US (genus Lampropeltis) in a variety of sizes and colors. Several are referred to locally, especially in the Eastern US, as Milk Snakes, and are often colorfully patterned like Coral Snakes.

Kingsnakes often prey on other snakes, and out West the large, dark-colored California Kingsnake is particularly fond of rattlesnakes, so I leave them alone.

Decades ago I lived on a friend's small 2.5 acre "ranchette" in Washoe Valley, NV, raising goats and rabbits. One day his young daughter carried into the house a cute little wormlike baby snake she had caught, which turned out to be a just-born rattlesnake. That triggered a fire drill but by then the snakes were out of the den, so nothing to do but shrug it off as country life.
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We had a very large king snake which lived under the porch of the house we lived in, between Juliaetta and Kendrick. He made himself known one day when he slithered across the back of my sunbathing wife. We had known each other for a half dozen years and been married for two, and I never knew she could levitate!
It was an old farmhouse, yet we had no mice, no rats, and no rattlers. WH

 

[Brians356]

It was an old farmhouse, yet we had no mice, no rats, and no rattlers. WH

I'll bet you had skunks, though. That Potlatch River road always had scent hanging over it.
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[snert]

Anything larger than that is an Omygodaboomboom...

At least around my little ranch

 

[Brians356]

Will, I had a teacher at Lewiston HS named Jay Henry. Any relation?
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[Will Henry]

Will, I had a teacher at Lewiston HS named Jay Henry. Any relation?
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No. My last name is Leeper, I just use the first two on here. WH (L)

 

[Brians356]

No. My last name is Leeper, I just use the first two on here. WH (L)

Thanks, because my next question was to be "Any relation to John Henry? You know, the chap with the hammer."
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[ebb]

All of you snake lovers I wish you had all the harmless pythons from the everglades in your back yard. They are decimating that native animals that used to live down here. The very agency that issued permits that were required to own one, collected the fees and did nothing to make sure the owners were responsible for them. Now they have waited too long to unleash trappers on them for fear that trapper /python hunter would be in the woods at night and kill a Florida deer. Now the pythons have killed so many deer, it seems there are none left to kill. Government in action. They have built an empire in Florida government based on protecting wildlife, and have protected everything but wildlife.

 

[Will Henry]

I don't think anyone thinks pythons in the everglades are harmless, especially to native wildlife. We have not seen any when we were there, but a guy grabbed a 12 footer just a few minutes before we arrived on scene. That python was decapitated and left for the vultures. Florida is indeed under a lot of pressure from invasive species; plants and animals (some would say, people too!). WH

 

[TrapperBR549]

ebb,
There is a big difference between supporting native species as part of a healthy ecosystem and turning invasive species loose in a non-native habitat.
I've only been to Florida a couple times, never had a pet snake, and I've certainly never turned one loose in the Everglades.
I will continue to appreciate our native species that do a fine job of controlling pests. I'd much rather have a 6' blacksnake under my porch than mice in my garage.

 

[Chuckhunter]

It looks like a typical water snake found here in Pa. They can
be aggressive but harmless. Any wet lands nearby ??

All around, stream on property, a couple of ponds and a lot of marsh across the road from me,

 

[Dkk37058]

Looks like a water snake to me found around ponds and creeks around here non poisonous

 

[cmysix]

black mamba

 

[DShortt]

Rattle-headed copper moccasin. No doubt about it.

 

[DShortt]

M R snakes.
M R not.
M R 2. C D B D I's?

L I B. M R snakes.