Weekly snake thread

If any of you ever have an abundance of Cicadas molting in your yards this time of year, be on the lookout for copperheads also. It’s their favorite food
Some of my goofy dogs like eating Cicadas too...close to the grossest thing I've ever heard being chomped.

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87186A31-2983-44C5-B88A-109B870680A6.jpeg Smashed and mashed copperhead. The cars won every time!!
 
It looks more like an Eastern Macadam Inside-Out Head but hard to tell for certain from the photo.

I saw that nice diamond pattern with the copperhead coloration to make me think that it was... however it was so smashed that it could have been an argyle sock. Hah!
 
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Farm Dog found a pregnant terrapin.

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Gravid, rather than pregnant since they lay eggs, but no idea how to tell.
 
I was working on a friend of the wife's tractor, wife opened this drawer, glanced in looking for some parts, and shut it.
I, barely paying attention to what she was doing, said, "there's a snake", she said, "where?" she didn't believe me that it was in the drawer.
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a terrapin is a land reptile,snapping turtles come out of the water to lay eggs, seeing snake eating egg my neighbor puts golf balls in chicken box when he was on vacation i looked his nest their was a blacksnake had eaten 2 golf balls
 
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I was working on a friend of the wife's tractor, wife opened this drawer, glanced in looking for some parts, and shut it.
I, barely paying attention to what she was doing, said, "there's a snake", she said, "where?" she didn't believe me that it was in the drawer.
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What ya think @Burt Gummer, pine snake?
 
I was working on a friend of the wife's tractor, wife opened this drawer, glanced in looking for some parts, and shut it.
I, barely paying attention to what she was doing, said, "there's a snake", she said, "where?" she didn't believe me that it was in the drawer.
DDCXRKj.jpg

It stole your 10mm socket!!!!!!!!

Looks like a juvenile gray rat snake to me.
 
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Corn Snakes are usually more red... I vote for Pine Snake or one of the Rat Snakes that is not a Black Rat Snake.
 
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Corn Snakes are usually more red... I vote for Pine Snake or one of the Rat Snakes that is not a Black Rat Snake.
Why isn’t it a black rat snake? The juveniles look exactly like this until the get big.
 
Those are well defined markings, possible juvenile corn snake?

That head coloring with the split dark pattern behind the eyes on the head (think of a "Y") usually is indicative of a juvenile rat snake vs the corn which will have a more of an "arrow head" across the top of the head.
 
I was working on a friend of the wife's tractor, wife opened this drawer, glanced in looking for some parts, and shut it.
I, barely paying attention to what she was doing, said, "there's a snake", she said, "where?" she didn't believe me that it was in the drawer.
DDCXRKj.jpg

Those are some wild looking markings. I went (in my mind) to an exotic the way the head shape looks in the pic. Then I went pine and then @Burt Gummer got me going rat but I am back towards pine now due to the head shape and pattern...neat lil feller for sure.
 
I initially thought pine snake as well because of the markings but I think @Burt Gummer is right about it being a juvenile rat snake. I've never actually seen a pine snake in person but descriptions say they're heavy bodied and spend most of their time underground. Also,the pine snake in the pic below appears to have a head shaped more like a hognose......
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I initially thought pine snake as well because of the markings but I think @Burt Gummer is right about it being a juvenile rat snake. I've never actually seen a pine snake in person but descriptions say they're heavy bodied and spend most of their time underground. Also,the pine snake in the pic below appears to have a head shaped more like a hognose......
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Right. Pine snakes are more speckled. But what do I know? Lol
 
Weeded the garden this evening an' met young Copperhaid!

You can tell by the triangular haid that I smashed his noggin good.
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Looks like he still has a slightly green tail.
 
Weeded the garden this evening an' met young Copperhaid!

You can tell by the triangular haid that I smashed his noggin good.
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Great pic. For everyone that screams copperhead at the first sign of a pattern, if it doesn’t look like this, it’s not a copperhead
 
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