Story: Girlfriend visiting family in Dallas and took this picture of a snake she found swimming in a small stream. She described it as having a wide checkerboard pattern that forms Xs. Of course I only know Va native herps. Problem is, she has no access to a computer and this picture was taken of the camera's small LCD with a camera phone! Haha, I love these kinds of IDs. Looks like one of the Nerodia sp.



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Virginia Herping
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/VaHS
Virginia Herpetological Society
http://fwie.fw.vt.edu/VHS

"The irrational fear of snakes is the only excuse a grown man has... to act like a complete sissy" - Colchicine

... nature has ceased to be what it always had been - what people needed protection from. Now nature - tamed, endangered, mortal - needs to be protected from people. When we are afraid, we shoot. But when we are nostalgic, we take pictures.
Susan Sontag

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• Dallas Tx snake ID - Colchicine, Tue Apr 18 21:24:41 2006
• RE: Dallas Tx snake ID - shaky, Tue Apr 18 22:04:11 2006
• I agree. That's what it is. /np - chrish, Tue Apr 18 23:04:21 2006
• Diamondback watersnake - Colchicine, Thu Apr 20 07:40:19 2006