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I happen to know what this snake is. But a fella on another forum (lol, a non-snake forum) insists it is something else. Can as many of you as possible respond with your best guess as to the ID? Also, for kicks, include a percentage of your confidence in your ID.

np

Northern Watersnake (Nerodia sipedon) 95% confidence.
Genus Nerodia 100.0000% confidence.

Unlike a lot of the pictures I see, I couldn't blame a "non-snake person" for thinking it was a Copperhead or even a young Cottonmouth. But even then, comparing a few pictures should make it obvious.
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What goes up must come down...unless it exceeds escape velocity.

a definite Northern Water Snake (Nerodia sipedon)..100% confidence

Tell them they can forget about it being a copperhead or a cottonmouth..

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

serpentinespecialties.webs.com

yeah...for a few laughs, you can read the thread here:

http://www.techsideline.com/forums/forumdisplay.php?56-The-Lounge

I was gonna direct a few knuckleheads here but I fear it wont do any good. Its actually the 2nd snake thread down the page dealing with the above pictured animal...

Those clowns guessed about every known type of snake in the U.S. except what it actually is. Just too funny..

Thanks for the giggle, I'm pretty used to that sort of blatant ignorance though after all these years...

"Eastern Timber Rattlesnake"..AAAHAHAHA!!!!

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

serpentinespecialties.webs.com

the scary thing is that the county animal control guy supposedly IDed it as a copperhead from that picture. And I have no doubt that the two guys who are steadfastly sticking to their Copperhead ID believe what they are saying...I just cant understand for the life of me how they could look at the original pic, then a pic of a copperhead and of a Nerodia and still be so sure and so wrong...

Yeah, it's just so sad that they would flip their wigs over a silly harmless water snake and put on their hero body armor to kill it and saving the entire town. It's just like a cornsnake's saddle blotches instantly look like "diamonds" along the back to the snake-ignorant general public.

I can only hope the poor snake gets away before the grim reaper snake "expert" arrives there to needlessly execute it.

Anyway, I'm glad you know that it is a very harmless Northern Water Snake and have some good common sense.

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

serpentinespecialties.webs.com

A friend of mine took this pic in his yard. Definitely a copperhead. I have seen many water snakes and brown snakes punished for being copperheads around where i live.

That's a Northern Water Snake!

JUST KIDDIN'!..

Yeah, I agree, so many are killed every day for no good reason.

Nice copperhead pic!

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

serpentinespecialties.webs.com

Northern Watersnake - very typical individual - no doubt
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Chris Harrison
San Antonio, Texas

Yep, all the others on this thread are correct..Nerodia sipedon, without doubt. There's nothing wrong with being wrong on an i.d. like this, but once shown that one is wrong, one should back down & apologize.

~~Greg~~

100% sure,northern water snake!
Jeff

100%

northern watersnake
100%

Northern Water Snake(Nerodia sipedon), big female, 110% plus my entire summer paycheck confidence! Tell THAT to the morons who said it was a Cottonmouth or Copperhead!