Snake ID

[jensieblue]

I have a huge wild cherry tree in my front yard and each summer, as the heat starts to ferment the cherries, a rat snake crawls up the tree and awaits the birds enjoying their happy hour. He maybe eating some of the cherries also, he doesn't seem to actually harm any of he clearly intoxicated birds but that seems to be his intent. Maybe the birds can hold their liquor better than the snake.

 

[Michael Varley]

Baby copper heads and moccaisns do look alike. That both have that yellow green tail tip, but this one had that distinct flat copper head? I just installed a solar snake repeller in the back yard. Its suppose to send a vibe that snakes don't like and drive them out. So beware ShallowsNole! Thanks for your help.

 

[Michael Varley]

I have a huge wild cherry tree in my front yard and each summer, as the heat starts to ferment the cherries, a rat snake crawls up the tree and awaits the birds enjoying their happy hour. He maybe eating some of the cherries also, he doesn't seem to actually harm any of he clearly intoxicated birds but that seems to be his intent. Maybe the birds can hold their liquor better than the snake.

Birds can get drunk on ripe cherries? How funny!

 

[grace]

Baby copper heads and moccaisns do look alike. That both have that yellow green tail tip, but this one had that distinct flat copper head? I just installed a solar snake repeller in the back yard. Its suppose to send a vibe that snakes don't like and drive them out. So beware ShallowsNole! Thanks for your help.

a hog nose snake will flatten it's self out.
moccasins and the non venomous fox snake are often misidentified as copperheads (which have not been documented this far south).

 

[Russ&Kimberly]

We were staying in a beach house on 30A last spring with gray rocks around the porch. I hoped down one day to see a funny stick out of the corner of my eye. It turned out to be a gray rat snake that blended in with the rocks. My snake jump could have set a record. I have not snake jumped in years.

 

[Will B]

I think the feathers and the presence of the snake are two unrelated events. If the snake did eat a bird, it would swallow it head first and whole, but the feathers wouldn't strip. It would eventually poop 'em out, but I doubt that's what you saw...

 

[jensieblue]

drunk birds

Birds can get drunk on ripe cherries? How funny!

It is a hoot to watch the birds trying to land in the tree. They miss the branches and just crash into the leaf canopy but gee, they seem so happy.

 

[bayoulife]

Can anyone help ID this snake? It's a tree climber. I feed the wild birds and I think it's eating them. Lots of feathers on the ground but no dead bird. Thanks

It's nonpoisonous!! Not exactly sure what kind of snake it is but it's not a poisonous snake. The only poisonous snakes in the southeastern part of the U.S. are pit vipers and the coral snake. The markings on its body don't match any pit viper in our region plus that snake has round pupils. Vipers have pupils similar to a cats eye, vertically elliptical.

 

[Rudyjohn]

ok, I've done it again. I've ventured into a thread that i know i shouldn't have touched with a 10 foot pole. Snakes. Now I'm nawshus, itching, and trying to keep my feet off the floor from under my desk.

 

[ShallowsNole]

Baby copper heads and moccaisns do look alike. That both have that yellow green tail tip, but this one had that distinct flat copper head? I just installed a solar snake repeller in the back yard. Its suppose to send a vibe that snakes don't like and drive them out. So beware ShallowsNole! Thanks for your help.

Oh gee thanks for running them out of your yard!

We once put moth balls all around the "inner" part of the yard because my heavily-educated nephew said that would repel snakes. We then watched a black racer slither right over them. If snakes could laugh, that one did.