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I believe it is an Eastern Hognose. Found in East Central Pennsylvania, Eastern Northumberland County. My mom called after she saw it sunning on the retaining wall it retreated under a boxwood shrub before coming back out into the late afternoon sun a few minutes later. Good thing my uncle wasn't home as he lives closer and my mom called him first he would have killed the little guy on sight.

It was in a bad location within ten feet of a main road with alot of traffic, so i caught it and am making a trip to my dad's cabin sunday to set it free 15 miles from the nearest paved road near a nice lake.

Somehow lost this prat of my post:
As you can see mainly grey with black markings, black tongue, white under chin rest of belly black to the vent and white under tail. Flattened out when touched but didn't do the Hognose "play dead" thing.

thanks

>>I believe it is an Eastern Hognose.

It is an eastern hognose.
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Thanks for the confirmation, i was about 90% sure once i got it out into the sun and noticed the "hog nose"

I assume being a frog/toad eater it is a good idea leaving it go near a lake? There is a small stream leading to it as well.

thanks again

Wayne

Yup, that is an Eastern Hognose (Heterodon platirhinos).You should just leave it where it was.

>>Yup, that is an Eastern Hognose (Heterodon platirhinos).You should just leave it where it was.

As i said:
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Good thing my uncle wasn't home as he lives closer and my mom called him first he would have killed the little guy on sight.

It was in a bad location within ten feet of a main road with alot of traffic, so i caught it and am making a trip to my dad's cabin sunday to set it free 15 miles from the nearest paved road near a nice lake.
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Knowing he would kill it if he saw it ( he is the one who cuts her grass and trims the shrubs). And my grandmother was scared of it anyway i thought it best to relocate it to a safer place far from humans likely to kill the little snake. He wouldn't care that it is only approx eight inches and thinner than a pencil.

Wayne

Your ID is correct and at the lake he will be close to his natural food supply. A pleasure reading your post.

Frank
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Released this little guy near my Dad's cabin. The land borders State Forest on two sides and i walked approx half way around the lake to release him just to the right of the picture of the lake. He stayed put for about 30 seconds before taking off under a nearby fallen tree stump. There were literally hundreds of little yellow/orange with bright orange spot ?salamanders or newts? all over the ground, and i also saw a bunch of frogs around the lake and some toads in the woods on the walk there.

Other picture shows a tape measure for scale on just how small this little guy was, only about 8 inches.

Wayne

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Looks like a nice place. The bright orange creatures are red efts, the land stage of the red-spotted newt (Notophthalmus viridescens viridescens).

>>Looks like a nice place. The bright orange creatures are red efts, the land stage of the red-spotted newt (Notophthalmus viridescens viridescens).

Thanks,
It is a nice place i only wish i lived closer so i could spend more time there during the summer months. And i had no idea that they were the newts that were so abundant in the lake earlier in the summer.

Wayne

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