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  On 3/12/2025 at 5:54 PM, Shoxthemonkey said:

1st snek of the year. It's about 6" long, give or take. DeKuy's Brown Snake is our guess. They are very common around here.

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Can't see the markings in the photo.  Either a Dekay's Brown or a Rough Earth Brown.  If there are noticeable markings, including a slightly darker top of the head, it's a DeKay's. 

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typed brown when meaning earth
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  On 3/12/2025 at 6:23 PM, SimonBolivar said:

Common Brown Snake (Pseudonaja textilis)

Good to start the year off with an easy id of a snake, a bit out of their traditional range though.

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I guess there is a slightly less than zero chance that it is a venomous snake from Australia.

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"That was neat. Oh well, I guess we'll all just go back to swimming at this here swimming hole.

See you guys next week in the "horrible ways to die" thread."

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  On 3/18/2025 at 12:34 PM, Blotto said:

"That was neat. Oh well, I guess we'll all just go back to swimming at this here swimming hole.

See you guys next week in the "horrible ways to die" thread."

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Salties in Australia say hold my beer - but point taken

  On 3/18/2025 at 2:33 PM, miguelito said:

Come on, the article said it's non-venomous.

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  On 3/28/2025 at 12:06 AM, Hate said:

What kind of snake is this? My son saw it near our neighborhood pond.  Is it a cottonmouth?


 

 

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think that's a nerodia, water snake, specifically a diamondback variant.  They can look an awful like cottonmouths, especially mature ones with the very dark, mottled coloring.  They also flatten their heads to look like pit vipers.  And they're often found around water.

One of the key identifiers when you can see the head is some pretty easily visible vertical stripes along the jaw on a light background, usually yellowish.

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  On 3/28/2025 at 1:42 AM, Jerry Callo said:

@TwiceHorn is correct - its a harmless diamondback water snake.  They have a chain link kind of pattern.   Plain bellied water snakes look line they have chalk marks across their backs.   At least that's how I tell the two apart.

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Seems like about half the snakes we identify are water snakes.  They come in a lot of varieties.

This is one of the sort of dark mottled variants. He was pretty aggro. Or she. 

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Also, ha, this is my own pic of my own encounter and, look closely, you see that same pattern.

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