Can you ID this snake?

Marc Hufnagel

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Saw this one this morning across our driveway, best pics I could get. Round pupil, non-aggressive, stayed still for the pics then slithered away quickly. Searched Illinois snakes but nothing looked to be a great match. Looked to be maybe 2 1/2ft stretched out I'd say.

We're in the Southern 1/3 of the state, the snake went towards a small runoff creek with brush all around it.

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it's the kind of snake i don't like being around lol...
 
Looks like a young copperhead.

Regards,
GEWB
 
Yeah I'd make sure you stayed away it does look like a copperhead.

I stepped on one barefoot one time and came close to shitting my pants.

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i would agree copperhead!

here is a picture i found by a quick google:

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On further exam, it probably isn't a copperhead - looks like I made a common ID error with a type of northern water snake or milk snake. Those two have rounder pupils instead of eliptical and a smaller head. What threw me is the gray-ish backfield coloring which is more like a copperhead.

Regards,
GEWB
 
gewb said:
On further exam, it probably isn't a copperhead - looks like I made a common ID error with a type of northern water snake or milk snake. Those two have rounder pupils instead of eliptical and a smaller head. What threw me is the gray-ish backfield coloring which is more like a copperhead.

Regards,
GEWB
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Now the wife is freaking out after seeing the picture LOL. Water snake you say? Venomous still?
 
searching on Google images I'm thinking maybe some sort of brown rat snake? Markings are similar, and they have round pupils.

edit: Also read that round pupils means non-venomous in all but coral snakes.
 
As the saying goes
"Red on yellow kill a fellow ( coral snake) red on black venom lack ( scarlet king snake)"


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Red on yellow, kill a fellow; red on black, friend of jack.

Good riddance on that coral snake. The availability of anti-venom makes this snake the most deadly of North American snakes.

"...The current antivenom stock expired in 2010, after two consecutive expiration date extensions approved by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration. Foreign pharmaceutical manufacturers have produced other coral snake antivenoms, but the costs associated with licensing them in the United States have stalled availability..."

The snake posted by the OP looks to be either a rat or milk snake. We've been seeing them more frequently up here in MI and at first I wasn't sure what it was. They were fatter than most gardner snakes I've seen and it kinda freaked me out. I never had a problem with them as a child but now they give me the chills.
 
Mike.Phillips@Autogeek said:
Since someone started a thread about snakes, here's one my fiancée killed last week with a Butcher Knife and "yes", it's the real deal, a Coral Snake.

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Mike, please tell the gang again how that Coral snake was dispatched. I got a chuckle out of it.


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Holy Batman! The nano coating on the Coral snake looks superior to anything I've seen. Definitely better than anything on the market. When is it available?

Oh oh.....I'm so confused. Autogeek??....Natgeo???

Mike.Phillips@Autogeek said:
Since someone started a thread about snakes, here's one my fiancée killed last week with a Butcher Knife and "yes", it's the real deal, a Coral Snake.

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SonOfOC said:
Holy Batman! The nano coating on the Coral snake looks superior to anything I've seen. Definitely better than anything on the market. When is it available?

Oh oh.....I'm so confused. Autogeek??....Natgeo???
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Rat Snake or brown watersnake, both are non - poisonous and prey on rodents and are restrictors.
 
Tried to post a pic of these snakes but it wont let me paste them here. You can just look them up on internet and there are many variations of the colorings but I am almost 100% sure that is a brown water snake.
 
well any of those snakes in my yard would be murdered snakes . not just by me . i have a dog that is snake killing mofo.i watched her kill 2 in a 5 minute span . the first one she grabbed it and shook it so fast and hard the snake snapped into 2 pieces this snake was about 3 foot long .i never seen anything like it .it was over in a matter of seconds.i said okkkkkkkkk. i gathered the snake up and threw it in the trash . went in the house and about 5 minutes later i hear a bunch of racket going on . so i look outside and bamm another snake even bigger she nabbed him too.so for the record i know of 5 snakes 2 birds 1 possum 1 rabbit. i think the squirrels are afraid to venture in our yard.
 
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