Return to the Reptiles & Amphibians Forum
| Post a Follow-Up
Snake ID?
| | |
Posted by timvid (My Page) on Sun, Oct 26, 08 at 18:58
| I found this snake today when I flipped over a rock in my yard in Memphis, TN. Even though it looks big in the photos, it was only about 1 foot long - clearly a juvenile. It was pretty feisty and kept lunging at me. The top of its head (middle photo) is really unusual (at least to me). Thanks in advance for your expertise.
Tim
|
Follow-Up Postings:
RE: Snake ID?
| | |
| First off - thanks for posting such great and diagnostic photos. It'd be much easier to ID things if people always posted such good photos. Thats a little Nerodia sipedon (Nerodia sipedon pleuralis (Midland Watersnake) if you go for the subspecies thing). The behavior you noticed is very typical for most snakes in that genus - pretty ill-tempered little brats! haha ~Mike |
RE: Snake ID?
| | |
| Thanks Mike. I'm always impressed by the identification skills of some of the people on this site. I'm sure I speak for everyone when I say thanks for sharing your knowledge with us. Tim |
RE: Snake ID?
| | |
| Great photo and ID. Thank you both. |
RE: Snake ID?
| | |
| Pond snake...For the last 2 years I have had this visitor, which I am assuming is a garden snake, very thin, long, and small head. He comes out of the pond into the flowers and then scurries away. This year when planting seeds he ran across my foot and I almost had a heart attack. Are they dangerous in any way, is it really a garden snake. Northeast Penna. (Valley Forge area) Does anyone have any knowledge about them? |
|
|
|
|
