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Can anyone tell me what kind this one is just by the marking in this picture?

Best guess without a clearer pic would be a young corn snake.
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"jesus is coming-when i count to 3,everyone jump out and yell SURPRISE!!"

Here you go. I cleared the picture up alittle. My neighbor killed it. I wish they would have came got me first. I would have captured it, identified it, and then let it go. They thought it was a cooperhead or cottonmouth.

young racer (Coluber). harmless
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I fully agree. It "WAS" a totally harmless juvenile Black Racer before someone whacked it for no reason..

~Doug
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"a snake in the grass is a GOOD thing"

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harmless Racer. Which subspecies (Black, Blue, Yellow-bellied, Everglades, etc) depends on where you are.
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Chris Harrison
San Antonio, Texas

I am in upper middle Alabama.

Either Southern Black Racer, or very likely an intergrade composite of the Northern Black Racer too, hard to say really. Keep in mind, these are not hard boundaries, but very good estimations of their ranges. Intergrades can go substantially beyound these lines on either side.

~Doug

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"a snake in the grass is a GOOD thing"

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