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05-03-2007, 11:40 AM
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Can't see the head too well, is the belly light yellow or orange colored? Did it have a thin orange or yellow band just behind the head? Looks like a Dekay's snake, not a garter snake. garter snakes are striped legnthwise. Dekay's snakes are harmless and most will not bite even if you pick them up. Garter snakes will bite if you pick them up, but the only risk is from infection where they bit you.
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05-03-2007, 11:51 AM
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05-03-2007, 12:02 PM
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Quote:
Originally Posted by MakoMike
Can't see the head too well, is the belly light yellow or orange colored? Did it have a thin orange or yellow band just behind the head? Looks like a Dekay's snake, not a garter snake. garter snakes are striped legnthwise. Dekay's snakes are harmless and most will not bite even if you pick them up. Garter snakes will bite if you pick them up, but the only risk is from infection where they bit you.
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The charm of fishing is that it is the pursuit of what is elusive but attainable, a perpetual series of occasions for hope. ~John Buchan
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05-03-2007, 04:28 PM
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Here are a couple more photos...
Dekays...never heard of a that kind of snake...is it pretty common ?
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05-03-2007, 04:41 PM
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? when you approached the snake did it flatten it's head out and coil kinda like a wimpy cobra and then play dead if so I call them Hog head snakes , my wife is scared Sh1T of snakes , they come up out of the bog and sun themselfs in my back yard ,we had a lab that would seek and destroy them but he is gone now ( fried by LIGHTNING) poor Scrappy.
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05-06-2007, 08:43 PM
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eh! What do you mean?
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05-07-2007, 03:59 PM
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Definitely a Garter.Got one livin around the fish pond.Kinda like a mascot.
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05-10-2007, 07:09 PM
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Quote:
Originally Posted by Mr. Sandman
Here are a couple more photos...
Dekays...never heard of a that kind of snake...is it pretty common ?
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My first thought was a DeKay's but now I'm seeing faint banding / blotching in these two photos and leaning towards Northern Water Snake. The size is a bit big for Dekay's gauged by the Oak leaves. |
You can’t truly call yourself “peaceful” unless you are capable of great violence.
If you are incapable of violence, you are not peaceful, you are just harmless.
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05-10-2007, 08:04 PM
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Quote:
Originally Posted by ReelinRod
My first thought was a DeKay's but now I'm seeing faint banding / blotching in these two photos and leaning towards Northern Water Snake. The size is a bit big for Dekay's gauged by the Oak leaves.
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Duh, I think that's exactly what it is. Heck, I've even housed the damn creature before as a kid 
The pattern is a bit dull, but it fits the profile perfectly.
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05-03-2007, 04:41 PM
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Quote:
Originally Posted by MakoMike
Looks like a Dekay's snake, not a garter snake. garter snakes are striped legnthwise.
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Not always...even the Eastern Gartner can be brown with spots and very subtle stripes.
Looks like it might have the Dekay's stripe behind the head, although it looks a little big for a Dekay.
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