Can anyone identify this snake?
My daughter's cat brought it home as a gift and I'm wondering about it. For scale: that gray thing behind the snake is about 4" tall.
Thanks
Might try this:
My guess would be a baby corn snake...huge variety in Alabama (if that is where you are?)
...very cool site! Thnx!
Kinda depend upon where you live but I would call it a rat snake. Be nice to it, they are useful.
It's a baby and it's kinda cute.
It is not a rat snake. Looks like a hognose to me. They are pretty common around here.
The snout is too rounded for a hognose.
If I saw it then it would be a dead snake!
I feel that way about spiders, but snakes give me the creeps!
You got 75%, Oren :) Coral snakes don't have triangular heads and their pupils are round...kissing cousins to cobras, toxin of both is neurotoxic rather than hemotoxic as in the three vipers you mentioned.
They are shy snakes, like to hide indecaying organic matter like compost piles; when we had a mulch pile,we always kept an eye out when turning it. They are pretty too; unfortunately they look much like king snakes (unfortunate because the kings are mistaken for corals).
Not even close.
On 09/16/2014 1:21 PM, dadiOH wrote: ...
"Red and yellow, kill a fellow; red and black, friend of Jack"
No poisonous snakes here in Delaware but wife is deathly afraid of them. If I can catch them, I remove them from the property.
Funny, spiders give me the creeps and I kill any that I find in the house. They don't bother my wife.
When I was a kid, I put a small garter snake in an empty bag of M&M's and gave them to another kid that hated snakes. He must have run a block.
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Eastern milk snake, I think. Might be corn snake or rat snake, but I think milk snake is more likely.
Yes, the OP is in Alabama. I checked the headers.
Don.
On Tue, 16 Sep 2014 19:42:07 -0400, Don Wiss wrote in
Sorry, I should have posted location. Yes, I am in Alabama, but my daughter lives near Tampa Bay, which is where the snake was found.
On Wed, 17 Sep 2014 07:16:54 -0700, Oren wrote in
It was about 12" long. From browsing the above link (good on, thanks!), I'm guessing an Eastern Racer.
Very likely!
Or more specifically a juvenile Eastern Yellow-bellied Racer. As pictured here:
Don.
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