Help Me Identify This Snake

[Guest]

Northern banded water snake

[Mitch f]

Northern banded water snake

Yep, Think you're right. BTW, my brother and I had snake encounters on the same weekend, the only difference is he filmed a video.

[3wt]

I'm no expert but looks too big to be a corn snake, and belly doesn't look right to me. I think it is a water snake because it is so big around, and many are colored like that. It very well may be a corn snake, if you are an expert 3wt then I'll take your word for it, but looks like a water snake from here to me.

I'm not expert. I'd never seen water snakes quite that red, but from google pictures it very well could be.

It is awfully large for a corn. Also I think corn snakes are supposed to have a distinctive checkeboard belly.

I'm changing my answer to very red water snake.

[fishinSWMO]

Nice looking snake. We seen a bunch the other day on the creek but nowhere near that colorful.

[ColdWaterFshr]

Never seen a water snake that white and red. Check out this link and look at the underbelly markings. http://magickcanoe.com/blog/2007/03/16/favourite-moments-7-eastern-milk-snake/

I'm sticking with milk snake.

[Mitch f]

Never seen a water snake that white and red. Check out this link and look at the underbelly markings. http://magickcanoe.c...ern-milk-snake/

I'm sticking with milk snake.

But what you couldn't see that might have helped was the snake had a dark brown back, I'm agreeing with Siusaluki

[Stoneroller]

mitch the one you are choking is a northern banded watersnake, as andy pointed out. the milksnake is a slender bodied snake so it's unlikely it's one of those. a corn snake could maybe get that big, but if it had a dark back then it wasn't a corn snake either. Corn snakes also tend to be slender. (although you cannot rule out a 'pet' being released, in which case it's body size/shape may not be typical of the wild types)

the two your brother found are black rat snakes, from what I can see. they could possibly be black racers, but being that they were relatively passive (ie doing the deed) I would lean towards black rat snakes. either way great snakes to have around your house.

[Wayne SW/MO]

The water snakes I've seen lately have been a little more red than usual it seems, breeding season?????

[Nick Williams]

mitch the one you are choking is a northern banded watersnake, as andy pointed out. the milksnake is a slender bodied snake so it's unlikely it's one of those. a corn snake could maybe get that big, but if it had a dark back then it wasn't a corn snake either. Corn snakes also tend to be slender. (although you cannot rule out a 'pet' being released, in which case it's body size/shape may not be typical of the wild types)

the two your brother found are black rat snakes, from what I can see. they could possibly be black racers, but being that they were relatively passive (ie doing the deed) I would lean towards black rat snakes. either way great snakes to have around your house.

Its not a water snake, I've never seen one with so much red or grey. Because of both of those colors I'm gonna have to say it was a 'pet,' which if it is it could be anything. The grey and red reminds me of the Grey Banded Kingsnake.

The head also throws me off, it is a very long head which looks to be a constrictor because of that.

[Nick Williams]

I say Corn Snake, red morph.