Hello, I live in mesa, AZ and have found about 7 snakes in my back yard, they were all under bags of soil, and they are all the same type of snake, I ran in to get my camera and by then they were gone, they werent banded like a coral snake, but they had some types of band, the colors were black/red/yellow/red/black and the colors were very faded, I thought that it was a kingsnake of some type, but am not sure, I am almost positive that it wasnt a coral snake, and just wanted to know if anyone might know what snakes these are, I have quite a few herps but I never got into the colubrids at all and I have never learned about our native reptiles except for the rattlesnakes, they were all around 8-9inches in length were they possibly starting to hibertnate? Any help welcome

thanks

tony butler

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• Help with unitentified snakes in back yard - nogard, Tue Nov 15 14:39:58 2005
• RE: Help with unitentified snakes in back yard - Mark Banczak, Tue Nov 15 15:34:25 2005
• RE: Help with unitentified snakes in back yard - nogard, Tue Nov 15 15:39:45 2005
• Long-nosed snake? - Mike Meade, Tue Nov 15 15:54:36 2005
• RE: Long-nosed snake? - nogard, Tue Nov 15 16:22:30 2005
• sounds like Chionactis.... - chrish, Tue Nov 15 19:59:23 2005
• ...sounds like Chionactis....mebbe.. - regalringneck, Tue Nov 15 21:24:30 2005
• Meant southeast .... not southwest......NP - nogard, Tue Nov 15 21:53:52 2005
• You have quite a few snakes that come very close to that description.... - Hotshot, Tue Nov 15 16:32:54 2005
• RE: You have quite a few snakes that come very close to that description... - nogard, Tue Nov 15 16:54:20 2005
• Yers they are - Mark Banczak, Tue Nov 15 20:30:50 2005
• Dang I type bad n/p - Mark Banczak, Tue Nov 15 20:31:39 2005
• RE: Yers they are - nogard, Tue Nov 15 21:52:39 2005
• No conflict there - Mark Banczak, Wed Nov 16 06:30:17 2005
• RE: Help with unitentified snakes in back yard - wesss, Wed Nov 16 02:11:52 2005
• Didnt notice Chrish had already mentioned the shovel nosed .. NP - wesss, Wed Nov 16 02:17:13 2005
• RE: Come on people, - FR, Wed Nov 16 10:49:54 2005
• Retic was my next guess - Mark Banczak, Wed Nov 16 13:23:59 2005
• RE: Actually its better taken in context - FR, Wed Nov 16 19:38:31 2005
• I'm back with you - Mark Banczak, Wed Nov 16 23:05:58 2005
• Wheres the oranges - boids-n-more, Thu Nov 17 13:49:51 2005
• RE: Come on people, - chrish, Wed Nov 16 20:42:57 2005
• RE: Come on people, - wesss, Thu Nov 17 00:04:37 2005
• RE: Come on people, - vip3ridae, Thu Nov 17 09:36:45 2005
• Yes, careful... - Mike Meade, Thu Nov 17 09:45:51 2005