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Found this guy out at Silver Springs State Park (Yorkville) hanging over a lake on a branch. I can't ID it, but it looks like a Queen Snake or a Graham's Crawfish Snake. What do you think?

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Thanks,
Amy
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Amy,
That's a Queen Snake (Regina septemvittata). The two brown stripes down the venter are the field markings that differentiate this species from grahamii. Awesome find! We have Queen snakes here in Western N.Y., but they are endangered and barely holding on in the two localities where they are found. Hope this helps! Great web page by the way......
Mike Collalto

Thanks...there hasn't been any queens documented in that county since before 1980, so that is a cool find! I was in the tree trying to knock down a fishing lure that got caught!

I'm glad you liked the website. I am pretty happy with it, especially because it is a freebie, so I am limited to what I can do (which is probably a good thing actually, as I am not super computer savy).
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Thanks,
Amy
www.myboids.4t.com
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1.14 Normal ball pythons
1.0 Pastel ball pythons
0.0.1 Sinaloan Milk Snake
0.0.1 Plains Garter
0.1 Normal Kenyan Sand Boa
2.0 Anery Kenyan Sand Boa
1.0 Mid-Baja Rosy Boa
0.1 Leucistic Texas Rat
1.2 Dumeril's Boa
1.2 BCI
That's Just The Snakes!