Just moved to Wichita Falls, Texas a few months ago. Was out driving tonight and came across a fresh killed snake. Had to stop to see what it was...but I dont know! So, I threw it in a bag and took it home! hah Looked in my book and still cant figure it out. The closest I can get is a plain bellied water snake. BUT... A: I'm in the country in a dry area with dry fields. Not really anything green or wet around here.... And B: I looked up pictures on google but couldnt find any that matched him.... He is 3 ft 1 inch long, 2 inches wide at widest point. A heavy bodied snake with head that kind of follows the wide body into a point.. in other words not the normal arrow head shape... if that makes sense. Its not a narrow head or anything... I'm not very good at decribing this.. hah Keeled scales. He is dark brown with no markings on the head. The front 1/4 of the body has light black patterning that really cant be desribed and then the rest of the snakes pattern resemble a gopher or bull snake pattern with the black blotches on the back and sides. The belley is cream colored. No orange or yellow..just a normal cream color with some black blotchs towrds the end of the body. Wish I could get a pic on here. But this puters USB port is messed up so this description will have to do. I am thinking a plain bellied water snake..but again as I've mentioned, it seems out of place and I cant find any pics of one that resembles it..all the pics I've seen especially seem to have orange or yellow colored bellys? And they all look much darker in color..... Any ideas?
I dont know anyone in this area to do a visual ID for me.

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• I'm stumped - zoolady, Wed Apr 19 01:05:43 2006
• RE: I'm stumped - chrish, Wed Apr 19 08:22:41 2006
• RE: I'm stumped - zoolady, Wed Apr 19 12:45:10 2006
• Found the water - zoolady, Wed Apr 19 16:19:36 2006
• RE: Found the water - chrish, Thu Apr 20 15:01:38 2006
• RE: Found the water - zoolady, Thu Apr 20 23:21:41 2006