Snake ID
NC mountains
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Rat snake, I think.
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Yep, agree. Black Rat Snake.
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Western Rat Snake.
I hope it's still alive.
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It has an "arrowhead shape" head. I probably saved this devil, I stopped, turned on the flashers, and ushered him off the road. He did bite the bottom of my shoe twice.
His colors looked OK but I was nervous about that head shape.
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Family members and I were walking a 5 mile section of the great Allegheny passage last Tuesday and came across one of these that tried to crawl through plastic landscape mesh. It's head and most of it's body went through but the rest wouldn't. It looked like 1/2" mesh. Since we knew snakes don't have a reverse gear, my son held the snakes head while I cut the mesh. That snake didn't show one bit of gratitude.
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The problem with identifiers like "triangular head," or "arrowhead shaped," is that we don't all agree. That, to my eye is a narrow head belonging to a rat snake. Eastern black snake most likely, though I have not spent a lot of time there. Allen, where you are, rattlesnake, copperhead, cottonmouth, or don't worry dude, the others won't kill you.
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RIght here we lack the rattlesnake and cottonmouth, which were in abundance where I used to live in Georgia.
We do have copperheads and he doesn't look like a copperhead.
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Wish we didn't have Rattlesnakes where I live. (We have Copperheads and Rattlesnakes.) I had posted about our weird greenish color Rattlesnakes here in our Holler. Very strange.
Our area is known for being "Snaky." Must be due to all the caves and old mines in the area for dens. (?)
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Flatlands local to me ,NC,we got copperhead and cotton mouths. Rattlesnakes are about 20 miles down the road and even then very few.See a lot of them further south .
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It has an "arrowhead shape" head. I probably saved this devil, I stopped, turned on the flashers, and ushered him off the road. He did bite the bottom of my shoe twice.
His colors looked OK but I was nervous about that head shape.
Agree with you.
I would have let him go also but I would not want to let him chew on me just to see what kind of teeth he has.
I caught one little bit longer and bigger than that one behind the head so as to get him out of the house awhile back. Had to grab him fast so as he would not escape/disappear in the house. He wrapped around my arm all the way to my neck (like a Boa) because I only had one hand control for awhile.
He got to stinking before I finally got him peeled off of me, (it was not me stinking) smelled like something dead maybe, a really bad odor on my shirt. I suspect I was holding back maybe a vomit from HIM. (or something getting ready to come out the other end) I turned him loose.
He did not like me. He coiled like a rattler and had the tail vibratings. He was the Coach Whip size and some red/orange on his tail. I took a good shower and washed my cloths. I went looking for how he got into the house. Found a hole by the outside TV antenna cable and a birds next close to the antenna cable hole going into the attic. It's now plugged. He climbed to the bird nest then got onto the antenna cable. He was coming out of the top of the over the stove microwave in the kitchen when I see him. Microwave vents into attic and not a close fit of the vent trim into the attic.
Wife would have probably shot him with a 12ga if she had see him and me not here.
She does not care for snakes in the house.
Wife helped with looking for the entrance.
Sure glad he did not crawl across my face or my wifes face during the night.
Might have got stinky again.
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