WHAT KIND OF SNAKE?

[JLW]

saw this snake slowly crawling across the road.

color was alot more yellow than what came out in the photo

anyone know what kind?

it was about 5 ft long... though i didn't get out to verify

 

 

 

 

[mattobertin]

gopher snake

[JLW]

thanks

i don't remember seeing any before

lots of rattlers, bulls racers

 

james

[Mr. Jonathan]

we always called them bull snakes growing up, but i do think that gopher snake is the more common name

[bonecollector]

we always called them bull snakes growing up, but i do think that gopher snake is the more common name

+1

We called them bull snakes!

[COUESAZ]

I called them a bunch of bad words because no matter what it is when I see it it is a huge rattler until I can prove it otherwise.

[JLW]

we always called them bull snakes growing up, but i do think that gopher snake is the more common name

+1

We called them bull snakes!

i didn't know bull snakes were the same as gopher snakes....

the bull snakes " what my dad called bull snakes" looked alot more like rattlers.

you learn something new

i saw 1 on a golf course that looke like he swallowed a softball.. he really looked like a rattler

 

[Coues&Bass]

Bull snake

[CouesWhitetail]

Bull snake/gopher snake are the same thing to most people. That's what you got there. These snakes are not poisonous and they eat a lot of rodents (hence the name gopher snake). I have watched them going in and out of burrows looking for the rodent owner of the burrow to eat.

 

This snake will also put up quite a show that makes it seem like a rattlesnake. They can coil up and put the tip of their tail in the leaves or small rocks and vibrate it so that it makes a sound similar to a rattlesnake. And they can flatten their head out to make it look diamond shaped like a rattlers. I have a good pic of one doing that, which I will post if I find it.

 

 

[CouesWhitetail]

here is a pic of a gopher snake that I recently saw changing the shape of his head into a triangle shape.

 

the normal shape of their head is like the one you photographed. Now look at this one:

 

[JLW]

cool photo!

that looks pretty aggressive.

the color in my photo doesn't really show how bright the yellowish green was

your photo seems more tan than yellow. maybe my monitor

yours look more like what my dad called bull snake

maybe 1 is a male 1 is female.

i think wikipedia says bull snakes are a subspecies of the gopher snake..?

thanks for sharing your pic

 

[CouesWhitetail]

cool photo!

that looks pretty aggressive.

the color in my photo doesn't really show how bright the yellowish green was

your photo seems more tan than yellow. maybe my monitor

yours look more like what my dad called bull snake

maybe 1 is a male 1 is female.

i think wikipedia says bull snakes are a subspecies of the gopher snake..?

thanks for sharing your pic

 

 

 

Both your snake and the one I posted the photo of are bull/gopher snakes (some call them gopher snakes, some bull snakes, but they are referring to the same snake). Most snakes have some variability in color, but the patterns tend to stay the same.

 

Amanda

[CouesWhitetail]

here is another pic showing how the color varies along the length of it's body.

 

[Distance]

gopher snake

yep

[Ernesto C]

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