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bizarro
at Wed Jun 11 21:18:30 2008 [ Email Message ] [ Show All Posts by bizarro ]
I live in the area of Nashville, TN. I've been told there are "chicken snakes" around, but from what I've read on the web that seems to be a name given to just about anything, most particularly rat snakes.
This one doesn't look like any picture I've found of a rat snake of any type, except possibly a juvenile black rat. Somehow I just can't think of a 5' long North American snake as being a "juvenile"! So, anyone got any ideas?
This is actually the second one of these that I've caught in the last two weeks - after having seen none in the seven years I've lived here. The first one was in my back yard and was about 47" long. This one I almost ran over in the road. I swerved to avoid it, but it's so long that I was SURE I must have clipped it's head or tail. I'm glad to say I didn't, and the snake is alive and well, though as yet unidentified.

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What kind of snake? - bizarro, Wed Jun 11 21:18:30 2008 
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