I agree, either a Garter Snake, Ribbon Snake, or even possibly Brown Snake(Storeria ssp.)Depending on where he lives. A Copperhead is deffinitely out of the question with the striping he discribed, unless of course it was an EXTREMELY rare on-of-a-kind pattern mutation...

I am banking on it being one of the top three previously mentioned.

For the OP, here is a typical young copperhead that it definitely was not. Many people get the head shape thing very misconstrued, as most any snake has some sort slight widening at the rear of the head, especially when they are aggitated in a defense posture.


~Doug

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• Milk Snake vs Copperhead - mmathis, Tue Apr 19 10:15:42 2011
• RE: Milk Snake vs Copperhead - joecop, Tue Apr 19 11:06:09 2011
• RE: Milk Snake vs Copperhead - mmathis, Tue Apr 19 12:02:24 2011
• RE: Milk Snake vs Copperhead - joecop, Tue Apr 19 13:08:12 2011
• RE: Milk Snake vs Copperhead - Joe_M, Tue Apr 19 13:46:49 2011
• RE: Milk Snake vs Copperhead - DMong, Tue Apr 19 14:20:09 2011
• RE: Milk Snake vs Copperhead - Joe_M, Tue Apr 19 14:50:29 2011
• RE: Milk Snake vs Copperhead - Joe_M, Tue Apr 19 15:07:35 2011
• RE: Milk Snake vs Copperhead - slimlv, Tue Apr 19 19:50:54 2011
• RE: Milk Snake vs Copperhead - Joe_M, Tue Apr 19 20:00:05 2011
• RE: Milk Snake vs Copperhead - DMong, Wed Apr 20 22:10:11 2011
• RE: Milk Snake vs Copperhead - mmathis, Tue Apr 19 16:05:49 2011
• Brown Snake? - snake_bit, Tue Apr 19 18:42:08 2011
• RE: Brown Snake? - mmathis, Tue Apr 19 20:25:29 2011
• Eastern Milk ? - snake_bit, Tue Apr 19 18:57:04 2011
• RE: Eastern Milk ? - joecop, Tue Apr 19 19:56:22 2011