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Has anyone ever seen a northern water snake that was so light colored and with so much red in it? This is a first for me. At first glance I thought it might be a corn snake but once I got closer I saw it was a water snake. I found this one swimming in Tabbs Creek about 300 yards from where it empties into the Chesapeake Bay (Virginia) so it was pretty salty. I thought that the water snakes that lived around salty/brackish water were really dark colored. This one obviously is not.

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1.0 het albino ball
1.0 norm ball
0.4 norm ball
0.1 snow corn
1.0 butter corn
0.1 norm corn
1.0 southern plains rat
1.0 striped Cali king
1.0 western hog
1.0 wc northern water snake

could not get a head shot since I was balanced on the log in knee deep mud while holding the camera.
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1.0 het albino ball
1.0 norm ball
0.4 norm ball
0.1 snow corn
1.0 butter corn
0.1 norm corn
1.0 southern plains rat
1.0 striped Cali king
1.0 western hog
1.0 wc northern water snake

Well, this is a bit late, but I haven't been online here much this summer.
I've only seen really light ones up there (Manassas area), never one that was light but still had lots of other color like that.

Kerry