Hopefully these pics show up because I'm pulling them from FB from a friend of a friend who is clearly doesn't know what she thinks she does about snakes.
She sent the pics to him and he asked for help on the ID.
Most people tell the lady who took the pics it's a water snake of some species with the vertical bars on the mouth being the giveaway. Not to mention the round pupils and lack of pits or mascara and so forth.
She then goes on a thing about how water snakes are viviparous and posts these pics:
And this little rant too:
"Still, all four fish in the wire basket that this snake was caught in, in the water, appeared to have died of envenomization.
All those fish were healthy and happy a few hours before and when the snake was caught in with them, they were "mushy" not merely dead.It also was doing violent strikes at the stick I put near it in the video that you saw.In my experience, most non venomous snakes bite and hold, not repeatedly strike and recoil."My best guess was a broad banded water snake although I'm prepared to be corrected on that. I just know, without a single doubt, that it is a non-venomous snake.