[N8 v2.0]

We came across this baby sunning next to the trail... it was between 5'-6' long...

 

[partsbara]

thats what ya get for livin in a swamp...

thats a decent size joe blake... poisonous ??

 

[Skookum]

Crikey!!!

 

[partsbara]

Crikey!!!

thats not a snake n8, thats a snake..

 

[skinny mike]

its a pity it didnt eat your 29er.

 

[N8 v2.0]

thats what ya get for livin in a swamp...

thats a decent size joe blake... poisonous ??

I don't know.. I tend to think of all snakes colored like that as cotton mouths which are poisonous.... I wasn't gonna poke at it and find out though... "Crikey!"

 

[Rip]

You sure it's a cotton mouth? I'm not sure, but I don't think cotton mouths go up trees.

 

[N8 v2.0]

You sure it's a cotton mouth? I'm not sure, but I don't think cotton mouths go up trees.

I don't think it was poisonous because it doesn't have a fat tringular head... but I still wasn't gonna poke at it with a stick!

 

[jimmydean]

Pussy

 

[BurlyShirley]

That's what you'd call a Chicken Snake/King Snake/Rat Snake. Common throughout the eastern US. Colors often vary. In TN they are mostly just black. Big guys they are. Known for eating rats, chicken eggs (not chickens unless babies) and other pests. Not harmful to humans.
A cotton mouth would likely be darker in color and not as big. They are short fattys, like copperheads.

 

[Dartman]

Nice rat snake.

Mike

 

[BurlyShirley]

N8, educate yourself.

http://www.wlf.state.la.us/apps/netgear/index.asp?cn=lawlf&pid=673

 

[Wahoo]

Cottonmouths will climb trees.....

 

[be-radd]

yeah cotton mouths stay small, thoes black snakes are harmless just scare the hell out of you when you run them over in the middle of the trail while their sunning

 

[N8 v2.0]

That was one big ol' snake though....

 

[narlus]

N8, educate yourself.

http://www.wlf.state.la.us/apps/netgear/index.asp?cn=lawlf&pid=673

it's gonna take more than one link...

 

[Ciaran]

Ack! I H8 snakes. Can't stand em. It's a phobia of some sort, and I realize that but I still hate em. At least out here the nasty ones will warn you before they bite you.

 

[JRB]

Ack! I H8 snakes. Can't stand em. It's a phobia of some sort, and I realize that but I still hate em. At least out here the nasty ones will warn you before they bite you.

some will warn you here. I am a huge pussy about them. I'm ok with that.

 

[I Are Baboon]

Cottonmouth:

 

[stosh]

Cottonmouth:

You know what I'd do with that...

 

[urbaindk]

That's what you'd call a Chicken Snake/King Snake/Rat Snake. Common throughout the eastern US. Colors often vary. In TN they are mostly just black. Big guys they are.QUOTE]


Yep, I agree, that's what it has to be, just I've never seen one that brown before.