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Snake Thread: 2023

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DoitBest
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I.D ?
txags92
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Juvenile racer maybe?
ttha_aggie_09
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Dekays Brown Snake
DoitBest
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It was definitely quick, retreated every time tried to move him...
Badace52
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Pretty sure it is a juvenile coachwhip starting to shift to its adult coloration. It's definitely not a brown snake.
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Maybe it's the angle but his head doesn't look like a coachwhip to me
DoitBest
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Only other pic I have..
ttha_aggie_09
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Sure looks like Badace was right - that's a coachwhip head.
P.U.T.U
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Yeah he is rarely wrong. It looks a little pissed so I say juvenile coachwhip as well
FTAG 2000
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BreNayPop said:

Grand cayman racer?
Winner.
12f Mane
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Yep, young coachwhip
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Ended up seeing 10 water snakes in one area yesterday. They were active and didn't seem phased by use being a few feet away. Collin county




maroon barchetta
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Like most OB members, they probably wanted you to leave them alone so they could do some fishing in peace.
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This guy was in the pool this morning. No idea what kind and the first we've found in our pool.
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This one was right at the back door. It didn't make it. PBWS?

Badace52
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YBWS, but they are the same species so pretty much yeah.
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rak1693
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Cottonmouth? I saw the head and smelled a musk when I got close so I was 90% sure it was. Just hoping I didn't kill some sort of water snake
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nm. I should just let the experts say. I say 51% watersnake though.
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Would need to see a picture from the side of his head. Kind of looks like it might have "mascara" but it's really hard to tell. My guess is cottonmouth.
Daddy-O5
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Watersnake. They can have a pretty nasty musk too.
FTAG 2000
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TheClaw07 said:

Would need to see a picture from the side of his head. Kind of looks like it might have "mascara" but it's really hard to tell. My guess is cottonmouth.


This. But based on tail I think it was chewing cotton.
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Eyes look more on the side than on closer to top, and that head shape while dead looks like venom glands on the side . My guess is cottonmouth
Badace52
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That's a cottonmouth.
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rak1693
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Here's a closer up picture I took of the head if this helps
P.U.T.U
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Need a better picture from the side of its head but does look like rails on the side of the head which means cottonmouth, plus the eye location. Even more importantly is Badace52 said it is a cottonmouth so...its a cottonmouth
ttha_aggie_09
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Don't rely on head shape exclusively but look at how much wider his head looks than it's body. The unprovoked (because it's dead) V-shape is also a good indicator.
12f Mane
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Cottonmouth
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That's a water moccasin!
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ttha_aggie_09 said:

Don't rely on head shape exclusively but look at how much wider his head looks than it's body. The unprovoked (because it's dead) V-shape is also a good indicator.


I didn't say anything about head shape, rails meant mascara lines
ttha_aggie_09
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I know you didn't - my comment about head shape was sort of a disclaimer, because most people hyper focus on it.
rak1693
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Unrelated to my previous post, my parents came home to this last night curled up at their front door
maroon barchetta
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It's hot outside.

He would like to be invited in.
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He looks friendly.
txags92
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Saw this one the other day from a bike team facebook page. No idea the original source, but the story is the snake struck at the bike as it was riding by and got wrapped into the rear derailleur.

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About 15 years ago I saw a large cottonmouth crossing a mountain bike trail so I made sure it crossed before i continued on. Stupid me did not realize it was a switch back so lets just say I know how Evil Knievel may have gotten started, had my feet up on the top post of the bike.

Rowlett nature preserve has a ton of copperheads, I love snakes but after seeing 7-8 right off tough parts of the trails a few times in a row I stopped going. It was only a matter of time I fell right on one.
 
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