Looks like a good belt to me!

 

All I know is that it's NOT a rattler, coral or a cobra snake. It maybe having the lizard for lunch tho.

 

http://www.herpsofnc.org/herps_of_NC/snakes/Stodek/Sto_dek.html

Looks like a brown snake to me. I don't like snakes....

 

Lizard looks like a 5 lined skink?

 

We call them blue tailed skinks

 

To Me looks like a Grey Snake! Snakes, yuk! Make my skin crawl, kinda like a snake then, huh? My wife goes nuts on a common grass snake, wonder what she would say. Just for info, did the daughter pick that up to show you and want in cage, or is that Your Idea?

 

Nice snake, nice skink--- unless you want a two in one package I'd take the snake out of there 'though.

 

I'm color blind but it may be an immature copperhead. I still remember the safety briefings from FT Bragg: 4 kinds of poisonous snakes. Good Luck, Rick

 

Well it certainly looks brown to me!! :bigrofl: :bigrofl: I don't know what kind of snake it is. I do know that we don't do a garden here because the garden looks great till the wife sees a snake in it, then she wont go near the garden for the rest of the season. she is terrified of snakes and will run screaming at the slightest mention of them.

Pete

PS -That skink looks like dinner for the snake

 

"Habitat/Range: This snake is common in vacant lots and forested areas and may be found under trash, logs, and rocks."

Now you know what you have to do with your yard to get rid of them.

 

It was found under a truck. he is definitely a brown snake. He eats worms, snails,and slugs not skinks.

 

The way I'm looking at it, it's too alive. Makes my skin crawl.

 

Not poisonous going by the outset eyes. Also, turn him over & look at his belly lines. in front of it's anus, the lines across are unbroken, and after the anus, the lines break in the middle. Poisonous snakes the lines go straight across all the way to the tip of the tail.

 

I don't want to know how Daniel is an expert in snake anus markings.

 

Not poisonous going by the outset eyes. Also, turn him over & look at his belly lines. in front of it's anus, the lines across are unbroken, and after the anus, the lines break in the middle. Poisonous snakes the lines go straight across all the way to the tip of the tail.

What happens when you've got him down and turned over; and the last thing you remember is his anus lines are unbroken.

 

I hit a black snake mowing a while back. That made me sad. I like having black rat snakes around to help control vermin. I redeemed myself by swerving around one in the driveway a few days later though. I usually see at least a few black snakes every year but I don't think I've ever seen any other kinds around here so I probably wouldn't be very helpful in id'ing one.

Is there a good way to tell if one's venomous without trying to flip it over to look at it's backside?

 

Is there a good way to tell if one's venomous without trying to flip it over to look at it's backside?

I think there are only 4 families of venomous snakes in the lower 48 states.... Rattlers (easy enough to see a rattler), the Copperhead (bright copper/red/orange look), the Cottonmouth (thick triangular head, usually held at 45 degree angle to their body), and the Coral (yellow/black/red alternating bands).

 

I'm not a snake expert by any means but the Bullsnakes like in the first and second pic survive and get turned loose in the back yard.

Rattlesnakes on the other hand have to be killed when they get into inhabited areas like this one I killed a few years ago at work in the last 2 pics. Incidentally the rattles don't work when they are wet, so I didn't realize it was a rattler until I had him out of the water and I noticed the shape of his head. They look kind of similar to a bullsnake at first glance, and bullsnakes will try to act like a rattler, coiling up and buzzing their tail. All these pics are crappy cell phone ones---.

DAC

 

Looks like a Rattleheadedcoppermoccasin to me...They are the most dangerous snakes alive....that is why I make them dead.

 

Looks like a Rattleheadedcoppermoccasin to me...They are the most dangerous snakes alive....that is why I make them dead.

:ditto:

 

The only way a snake gets a death sentence here is if he's poisonous and I yet to have one of those,, he gets into the house, I had to "execute" one once because he decided to drop into the basement rather than go back outdoors. I have had a few commit suicide with the mower deck out back, hate to see that but it happens. They keep all the moles, mice, frogs and other pests in check.

 

Snake and lizard are friends. This is a different skink than was in the frist picture. This little guy was rescued from the cat hence the mangled tail.