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We have about 6 of these guys/gals, don't know how to tell the diff. They lerk in the flower gardens, and one resides in the vegie garden. A week or so ago they shead their old skins. This one is about 36-40" long. It was odvious that it had swallowed one or two of our garden menisis. They startle us once in the while, but they have taken care of the vowels and mice that have raised havock with our tulip and lily bulbs.
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Bad as most folks hate snakes, they are often really pretty creatures. Too, like you have said, they take care of so many pests, including the poisioness ones of their own species, that they are a great creature to have around.......except for those times when they startle you to the point you leave a mess in your britches or make you hurt yourself trying to get away.....
 
Must have been a Happy Meal, he seems to have a smile on his face. If I know it is of the non poisonous variety I leave them be, as already stated, they are a great help in controlling the wee beasties of the garden and woods.
 
We used to have the kind with rattles on their tail come around the house. After we cut down the mesquite tree that was drawing the birds and packrats, the rattlesnakes left after they cleaned out all of the packrats.
 
Great picture, I like the facial expression. We have mostly milk snakes and garter snakes in the garden and I have been told that they eat slugs too, which is certainly a useful contribution to our garden.
Zach
 
Looks like it may be the same kind that Nancy Howell posted a photo of a while back. It might have been called a King snake.

Even though not poisonous, that would scare the bejeebers out of me! Probably cure me of gardening.
 
Looks like a common garter snake. They are good to have around.If you pick one up they will secrete a very stinky fluid that's hard to wash off your hands.
 
Couple of weeks ago, a woman in our church reached into her flower bed to pull a weed and got hit by a copperhead. A week later she was in church, but it was a rough week.

I don't mind snakes too much. They don't eat veggies or grain seed. We just have to be careful with small chicks, but have never had problems with snakes like coons or possums.

Christopher
 
we have a couple of big black colored snakes around here i think there bull snakes, but not possitive, the storie goes that if you have them around you do not have rattlers too as these kill and eat them, not sure if thats a fact or a old wives tale, but i do know ive only had 1 rattle snake on the place and he rode down in a log that came with flood waters a few years ago, rattle snakes are all over this area of the county so i let the black colored snakes hang out, one is about 4 feet the other around 6, quite a start when you come up on them unexpectedly
 
Unfortunately my snakes are the same color as the underside of that one, and poisonous. Would like a few of those, had a problem with mice last summer..
 
I could use a few around my place the mice are taking over my chicken pen. I put poison out, but they like chicken feed better. Only one outside cat, he can only do so much. Stan
 
I recall reading a story a few years ago where in a Nebraska Game Commission officer entered a long unused cabin out in the Sandhills and encountered a bull snake and a rattlesnake.

The bull snake had an attitude and the rattler bit him, so I wouldn't bet the farm on the two species not co-existing.

At any rate, any snake I encounter is history, if it can be arranged.
 
I've seen them with toads in their mouths, that could not possibly fit, then again, I rescued the last one I saw, don't take the bug eaters on us. Corn snakes do well here, see those often, usually pleasant if you want to handle one, it an annual rite to see the first one, garters are plentiful, always one sunning nearby.
 
We have so many voles in our neck of the woods that all the predators have pot bellies from eating so well and they can"t keep up with them. The sea gulls come in and eat so many they have to wait to cr** before they get their gross weight down enough to take off!
 
Nonvenomous snakes usually have a round pupil in the eye. Venomous snakes in the U.S. (except for the coral snake) have an elliptical pupil like a cat's eye. It looks like a small vertical slit in the middle of the eye. This can be difficult to determine without getting dangerously close, however.
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Looks just like the one I saw a couple of months ago at the farm. Speckled King Snake. It was not aggressive or it would have tagged me for nearly stepping on it.

We have a "resident" black snake that changes its skin in the flower bed along the patio. Pretty good size, 5 ft +.

We leave the "good guys" alone. Poisonous ones are dispatched if possible.

I"ve always been (pleasantly) amazed that we don"t see more snakes at the farm. Good thing is, we haven"t seen a poisonous one in years and have never seen a rattle snake. Hope it stays this way.
 
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