I caught this little guy a couple of years ago and released him after taking these photos. He flattened out his head while I was photographing him, then reared up with head still flattened and held horizontally. He maintained this pose for quite a while; when I tried to move around to the front or side to get photos from a different angle, he would turn to keep the back of his head facing me. Now I've caught lots of Diadophis, but this is the only one I've seen do this. Have any of you seen or heard of this?


By the way, he's from Middle Tennessee, within the intergrade area of D. p. edwardsi and D. p. stictogenys, but he looked like a good edwardsi. He was about 6-7" long, which is typical adult size in this area.

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