My boys, 5 & 3, found this under their basketball goal. I'm thinking it's a garden snake. It was about a 1 1/2 ft long.
It scares me when they find things like that. This is their 3rd or 4th snake they've found :o
Thanks a bunch
Snake ID PLEASE
I believe what you have is a ribbon snake. They are not venomous. If I had to make a best guess as to the specific type, I'd say the Peninsula Ribbon Snake. They are described as 18 to 25 inches in length, tan or brown in color with a narrow light stripe on each side with a plain yellowish white belly.
Crow
It looks like a Checkered Garter snake but I cant be 100 percent. They are all over my yard and I had many as pets growing up.
Common garter snake.
The one thing I do recall is that they poop all over you when you pick them up.
I'm gonna go look up the snake.
jujubetexas- It pooped all over my husband when he picked it up. After I put it in a container, it peepeed all in the container.
Memories.......
I think it is a checkered garter snake. The ribbon snakes don't have the spots like garter snakes do.
I knew it wasn't venomous b/c of the eyes. Its head looked like it was swooped, almost like it was made to dig.
At any rate, venomous or not, it's still scary when they (kids) come in and scream, "I found a snake!"
I used to have a corn and king snake as a child. I also hatched 3 rat snakes from eggs as a kid. I grew up in AL, I'm scared of rattlers here!
Snakes are our friends.
WOW that's a BIG snake
Friends who make your skin crawl are mere aquaintances in my book! That snake would definitely need one of those bicycle flags on the end of this tail to get to stay in my garden.
As long as they aren't venemous or don't bite me they can stay. Having said that, even non-venomous snake will bite if you mess with them, so one that size would be left alone!
C
LOL! A non-venemous snake can stay in my garden--assuming that it could avoid the dogs and the chickens--as long as I know where it is. Thus the desire to outfit a snake with the bicycle flag!
I found rough earth snakes this year, too small to bite and they eat earthworms so not much use against pests. Still, they are interesting to find when I go out to weed.
C
We had large five foot rat snakes that used to eat our chicken eggs right out underneath the chicken. They used to get stuck going back out the coop because the egg was too big to get out the fence in their stomach. I would take them on a ride down the road and release them.
Snakes are neat but SCAREY!
not so scary if they aren't going to kill me...
I agree with you Terry......about the bicycle flag! LOL!!!!!
My daughter and I found a similar looking snake in our small pond in the back corner of the garden last year. We estimated it to be around 2-3 ft long and pretty good size around. She screamed so loud that it left and has never come back! She asks often if I have seen it......but thank goodness I have not!
I look carefully when I am out in the yard for them. We have woods about two blocks from here so we occasionally get critters from time to time even tho we are in the city!
I understand that snakes and spiders help in nature, but I too would rather just be an "acquaintance!" LOL!
You can get an infection from a bite of a non-poisonous snake. I think, I would be careful when handling one that size.
Here is a picture of a ribbon snake for future reference. It was in my flower bed literally on top of a flower.
Charlene
That is a very cool photo, Charlene! That could be in a calendar or something!
kenboy- Is that a corn snake?
It is a Texas Rat. I set my peafowl egg under chickens and check them just after sundown, sometimes I find snakes and have to relocate them.
In Al as a kid, I hatched 3 rat snakes from eggs. We used to go to the college and get pinkies to feed them. I had a corn and king snake also. But that was when I was a child, I'm grown now and have watched too much TV.
That's a big one. You still have it?
OH no, I set it free a few miles from us, near a dairy. About ten years ago we had several pythons and boas. Then one year we had such a hot Summer that one day it got to 117 behind the barn and our rats just shut down and would not breed. It started costing us $25 a week to feed them so we found them good homes. I really don't miss them but I do miss my horses.
I LOVE horses!! What happened to your horses?
Oh, kenboy is showing off his snakes again, I see! LOL
Ken made the decision to find new homes for the remaining 2 horses a few years ago. He realized that if he was injured while riding we would be up that old creek without a paddle - as in no income!
We sure do miss them sometimes (the horses) - the snakes, not so much :~)
I think the risk is worth it! But then again I don't have a horse. Were the horses scared of the snakes?
like this one i cought . i grilled it 8 rattlers and a button got him last night
Taste like chicken.
pretty close with a lil BBQ not bad Got the Idea From the rattle Snake Round up In good Ol TX thanks TX ~;>)
Rattlesnake roundup in Sweetwater ? Neat , isn't it ?I don't see how they can catch so many over the years , (50 now that I know of ) and not deplete the population .
yep it was awesome !
And yeah , it tastes like chicken with garlic.
I took my two boys to the round up this year in Sweetwater. A bunch of snakes!!!
They got to touch them.
Sgt Yates-- I don't know what I'd do if I saw a snake like the one you got-
We were gonna try the meat but the line was waaay tooo long. It didn't mean that much to me to wait!LOL
Here's a few pictures from it. This is Jimmy ( 5 ) with one close to him..he was a bit scared
Here's Justan (3) touching the rattle of one
Jimmy don’t look like he’s too sure about the feller that has a hold of the snake . his mind is like cool his legs are telling him to run! LOL while Justan looks like me if you let me have him I’ll show my mom then cook him myself He he he . Kids are funny that way aren’t they as they are little not mush scars us but when we get older and parents have whipped the tar out of us for doing silly things some of us still do dangerous things but learned how to do them safer. lol
Yates , what are those BIG bugs .........................? Look nasty .
hay Digger, they are camel Spiders and the one on the bottem is a Female the one on top is male . if you look the bottom one has eggsacks on her back
I sure hope you didn't bring any back with you .LOL . Do they bite or just scare the bejebbers out of you ? Lordy , I'd hate for one of those to get in bed with me . Snakes don't bother me at all , it's that crawly feeling that makes cold chills .
just this one ! he was a baby only about the size of a half dollar in 1990 he is about half the size if you fold a dollar in half now lol
ain't he cute ~;>)
