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I don't know what it was eating. It was in front/middle of a group of 3 decent sized yuccas, in some grasses. It finished devouring it's meal, and retreated to the clumps of dead leaves that yuccas develop on the bottom half of the plant. Time was between 7:30am-80pm, temp was mid 70s. The snake was 3' or so. Really pretty. Not cooperative at all for photos, and it's a reserve so there's no touching/catching for better pics...it made my freaking week

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We wouldn't have 6 and a half billion people if you had to be beautiful to get laid.
6.6 African House snakes
3.2 reticulated pythons
.1 corn snake
4.2 Florida Kings
1.2 speckled kings
1.2 ball pythons
0.0.1 Argentine boa

Very Cool! love the colors!
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Stu
Snakes N Gex.com

Very cool find what state is it in? I'm trying to figure out if it is a pure Speckled or an intergrade? Looks like it has a little Splendida but can't really tell.
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J Sierra

I'm in Amarillo, TX. The snake was at a nature preserve I go walking in, looking for herps. I've found probably a dozen box turtles and horned lizards this year, and an assortment of coach whips, rattlers (diamond and prairie), cnemmies, etc. there since labor day.
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We wouldn't have 6 and a half billion people if you had to be beautiful to get laid.
6.6 African House snakes
3.2 reticulated pythons
.1 corn snake
4.2 Florida Kings
1.2 speckled kings
1.2 ball pythons
0.0.1 Argentine boa

Yeah I was gonna say that tail looked like the tail of a coachwhip, cool pics. I'm guessing yeloww speckled king then.
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King Snakes! Who can make a better mouse trap?
J Sierra

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>>I don't know what it was eating. It was in front/middle of a group of 3 decent sized yuccas, in some grasses. It finished devouring it's meal, and retreated to the clumps of dead leaves that yuccas develop on the bottom half of the plant. Time was between 7:30am-80pm, temp was mid 70s. The snake was 3' or so. Really pretty. Not cooperative at all for photos, and it's a reserve so there's no touching/catching for better pics...it made my freaking week

Nice Holbrooki....
Looks like it may have just finished eating a sceloporus lizard.......
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John Lassiter
Poor planning and procrastination on your part does not constitute an emergency on my part...
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"Looks like it may have just finished eating a sceloporus lizard......."

That tail looks a little too long to be lizard. If it were a lizard at that tail length we should see at least the tip of the lizards legs. What do you think? I'll put my bet on a juvie coachwhip, he he.
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King Snakes! Who can make a better mouse trap?
J Sierra

it's academic I guess...I thought the tail looked lizard-y myself...maybe a racerunner? They've got tails about 2x the SVL...best guess on the field forum, and it looks about right. But usually the ventral on those is white...I don't know.

It was a neat snake. Gonna get my butt out of bet tomorrow early and go out again at sunup *yuck*.
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We wouldn't have 6 and a half billion people if you had to be beautiful to get laid.
6.6 African House snakes
3.2 reticulated pythons
.1 corn snake
4.2 Florida Kings
1.2 speckled kings
1.2 ball pythons
0.0.1 Argentine boa

I was messing with John. Trying to be funny cause I was bored. Who knows what it was, lol. Great pics though, thanks for sharing.
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King Snakes! Who can make a better mouse trap?
J Sierra

you can't see it in these photos, but it had the defined cross bands the deserts are supposed to have, plus the speckling that holbrooki get, so I'm going to guess intergrade? *shrug* Either way. Pretty!
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We wouldn't have 6 and a half billion people if you had to be beautiful to get laid.
6.6 African House snakes
3.2 reticulated pythons
.1 corn snake
4.2 Florida Kings
1.2 speckled kings
1.2 ball pythons
0.0.1 Argentine boa

>>you can't see it in these photos, but it had the defined cross bands the deserts are supposed to have, plus the speckling that holbrooki get, so I'm going to guess intergrade? *shrug* Either way. Pretty!

I am sure it is in the intergrade zone......But they are what they are....
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John Lassiter
Poor planning and procrastination on your part does not constitute an emergency on my part...
www.coastalbendcaptivebreeding.com

Yeah that snake definitely looks like it has some splendida blood in it. And I would have to go racerunner on the prey item. It looks to stiff to be the tail of a coachwhip, and to long a tapered to be a swift.