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RE: what kidn of snake?

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Posted by: FunkyRes at Thu Jun 29 12:00:59 2006   [ Email Message ] [ Show All Posts by FunkyRes ]  
   

It could be an eastern garter snake as well - apparently the eastern sometimes is an olive color with very faint or absent stripe on it.

I do not think it is a rat snake - they usually have a stripe that goes through the eye (though the picture doesn't give a good view of the head) and the blotching is usually more distinct. Those scales look too keeled to be a rat snake as well.

OTOH - I did a google image search for the brown snake suggestion -

http://www.umass.edu/nrec/snake_pit/pages/brown.html
http://www.bnl.gov/esd/reserve/images/snakes5.jpg

That very well may be what it is.

Brown Snakes have a divided anal plate.
Garter snakes have a single.

So wether it is a species of garter or a brown snake should be easy to determine by looking at the anal plate (the large scale between the belly scales and the tail).

   

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