Snake identification (1 Viewer)

[knuckle47]

For what it’s worth, we share a vastly different view on snakes around here. I don’t believe that there are too many poisonous snakes in NJ but I did hear at one time if the eyes are round you don’t have to worry about a toxin but if the eyes are diamond shape…you could be in real trouble

Personally, I take no second guess to look into their eyes

 

[SNLC]

This one showed up in my yard a few years ago. Friendliest snake I ever ran across. Not in the least aggressive. About 4 feet long.

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So in July I was coming back from a weekend trip and doing about 50mph on a gravel road in the desert. I come around a corner and a hawk flies out of the grass and clips my hood, I saw it had a snake in its claws. So I slam on the brakes and jump out and run back to wear the hawk hit my Cruiser. The hawk is now long gone but a bull snake about the same size as that one is on the ground.

I grabbed it and picked it up, still alive but had a few small wounds. It look like it took a peck to the head and wasn’t going to make it, I let it go in the grass.

I am a snake lover myself and not afraid of them at all.

Few years ago I caught a Rubber Boa on the Idaho Nevada border. I have wanted to see one my whole life. I was sooo stoked, jumped out of the truck and grabbed it. Now that was a docile snake!

Cheers

 

[rherrco]

For what it’s worth, we share a vastly different view on snakes around here. I don’t believe that there are too many poisonous snakes in NJ but I did hear at one time if the eyes are round you don’t have to worry about a toxin but if the eyes are diamond shape…you could be in real trouble

Personally, I take no second guess to look into their eyes

None in Sea Bright when I lived there. Garter snakes don’t count.

 

[knuckle47]

My guess? They don’t enjoy swimming. That storm surge from the ocean there has always been a problem. They tell me the snakes in Monmouth and Ocean are mostly Pine Snakes and Garter Snakes…regardless they are not welcome here. Sea Bright is a very nice area but those sea water floods can wreak havoc

 

[RHINO]

It was very docile and I played with it for a few hours before we let it go.

Cheers

they absolutely are, i think under certain conditions they imitate a rattler in character, ive even had a few shake tails as if they had rattles.

i did not know rubber Boa's were native here, now, Red Racers, those are cool snakes.

 

[SNLC]

they absolutely are, i think under certain conditions they imitate a rattler in character, ive even had a few shake tails as if they had rattles.

i did not know rubber Boa's were native here, now, Red Racers, those are cool snakes.

It’s the only boa in North America. Took me 50yrs of being in the outdoors to see one. When I was a kid I really liked snakes, had some, was a member in the local herpetology club and a remember learning about the Rubber Boa back then when I was a teen. Only took my 50yr old brain about 20 seconds to remember it and be like, man look at that!!

Cheers

 

[rherrco]

It’s the only boa in North America. Took me 50yrs of being in the outdoors to see one. When I was a kid I really liked snakes, had some, was a member in the local herpetology club and a remember learning about the Rubber Boa back then when I was a teen. Only took my 50yr old brain about 20 seconds to remember it and be like, man look at that!!

Cheers

Yeah, I accidentally interrupted two bull snakes mating, and boy were they pissed. One took off into the brush and the other came after me. Scared the crap out of my six year old son.
I also came across a small snake about a foot long, looked like a garter but acted like a constrictor. When I picked it up off the road, it kept reading around my fingers and squeezing for all it was worth. Not sure what it was, but evidently there is a constrictor species in Colorado.

 

[peneumbra2]

Here in northern Arizona, we famously have the Kaibab Spitting Cobra. Their reputation is far worse than their actual behavior.

Say, there's one over on the patio. I'll just reach over and grab it behind the hea--