What is this snake ,Please. *mystery solved! :o)*

[Soccer Mom]

It's a juvenile rat snake. Classic pattern.

http://www.texassnakes.net/JuvRat.htm

 

[M To The Maxx]

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Dont have the head..it went missing from the weed wacker..

Thanks for the I.D. help! Going to google Milk Snake!

Poor little guy!

Milk snakes are non venomous.

 

[redhen]

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I Know, i felt bad when hubby showed it to me. I hate to see anything harmless killed. But it was an accident..he actually found it in our basement window casing..he thinks he hit it while week wacking and it got tossed into the window..

 

[allison finch]

I added a pic to my above post. Still say juvenile rat.

 

[Soccer Mom]

Check out the link I posted above. It's indeed a juvenile rat.

Here is a pic of copperheads. Different pattern.
http://www.freesnake.com/cop1.html

 

[redhen]

Thanks for the help guys! Glad its not a nasty old copperhead!

 

[tonini3059]

I would say it is a milk snake, not the rat snake, different coloring and pattern. Anyway the wife's aunt thought she caught a copperhead and it was the same thing, a little milk snake. Thankfully it was unharmed so we just let it go, I hate it when people kill snakes.
A word on copperheads though. I have been trekking through the woods for years during the summer months and have never come across a copperhead. I think they are much less common than most people think. The problem is the same cryptic pattern that the copperheads employ looks similar to other snakes so anytime a snake is spotted with a cryptic pattern it is assumed to be venomous. However there are differences in patterns, coloration, head structure and how the eye looks.

 

[koifarm]

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Definitely a rat snake

http://www.mdc.mo.gov/nathis/herpetol/snake/images/nv5.jpg

 

[mikeksfarmer]

Yes I would go with dead snake and corn snake. Too bad you killed it now you will have to deal with the mice it would have eaten.

 

[KittyKelly]

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I agree. Those snakes are good to have around unless they start eating your chicks. You should have relocated it