Last week, I had the thrill of catching, photographing, and releasing one of the most beautiful, stout, and impressive fox snakes I've ever seen. (I was in Vermilion County, Illinois at the time.) Earlier this week, a coworker showed me two images of a snake he had seen while camping with his Boy Scout troop across the border in extreme western Indiana. I'm guessing from the images that the snake is a grey rat snake (with a meal in its belly), but since I've never seen one in person, I wanted to get everyone's opinions.

If the images don't show up, here are the direct URLs:

http://www.greatsleague.com/images/other/r1.jpg
http://www.greatsleague.com/images/other/r2.jpg

Here is the fox snake (inside a suede bag):

http://www.greatsleague.com/images/other/foxsnake.jpg

Thanks!

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• Grey rat snake (?) in western Indiana? - arnold_elvis, Fri Jul 10 11:41:28 2009
• RE: Grey rat snake (?) in western Indiana? - wolfpackh, Fri Jul 10 12:40:28 2009
• RE: Grey rat snake (?) in western Indiana? - arnold_elvis, Fri Jul 10 14:21:32 2009
• RE: Grey rat snake (?) in western Indiana? - wolfpackh, Fri Jul 10 15:17:37 2009
• RE: Grey rat snake (?) in western Indiana? - LarryF, Fri Jul 10 14:26:51 2009