Snake ID
 

This one has me stumped... Looks like a coachwhip.... but im not sure...

Anyone ??

Diamondback water snake.

That could be a black racer, but the body does not look "slim" like a racer and most racers don't have the color pattern like this snake.

Maybe it is a Rat snake.

Juvenile Black rat aka chicken snake

its dead now.... When it was in the bucket it was shaking the last 2-3" of its tail fast like a rattlensnake.

yeah they will do that and they will bite yo azz too!

Copper headed chicken rattler moccasin? Looks like a chicken snake really.

Pretty rat snake right there.

Looks like a chicken snake to me. These are of a coachwhip I saw Saturday. He was prolly 7' long. He blasted across the road in front of me then climbed an oak sapling. Sorry the pics arent better. I didnt want to get too close and scare him off

too dark for a rat snake, agree with #1, diamond backed water snake. Tail rattling is classic defensive behavior for water snakes and yes they bite aggressively.

If it were a water snake, stinch would be a dead give away. Water snakes stink! Also, from what I can see, the belly is white. Diamondback water snakes have yellow bellies. the body doesn't look thick enough either.

That's a rat snake.

its a rat snake, we have the Texas and black ratsnake, they will integrade also. The Texas ratsnake shows the blotches very well and the juvenile black rats show it like this one. Pretty much all non-venomous snakes will do some kind of imitation of venomous snakes such as tail rattling. Watersnakes will do the tail rattling and will also flare their heads out in a diamond shape to look like a cottonmouth. Even seen cottonmouths rattling their tails

I caught a very large Texas ratsnake this weekend near the nieighborhood pond. It did the tail rattling and tried to bite. After a while it
calmed down and my kid and the nieghbors kids played with it in the front yard and we then let it go back at the pond.

this one lived about another 4 minutes before I smashed its head with a machete. This one is going on the wall..... Going to skin him out and salt the hide.

Just reading this thread and looking at the pictures give me the frissons.


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didn't you post a thread about having problems wit rats once?

He was just mindin his own trying to help you out!

This one was where I work....

That .22 took care of the rats..