Members GotaFish Posted July 21 Members Posted July 21 Found this guy in the house stuck do this glue board. Is he a prairie king snake?
tjm Posted July 22 Posted July 22 just going by head size and shape in the last image, I'd say no. I'm interested to see what the herps say Was it dead?
Members GotaFish Posted July 22 Author Members Posted July 22 No the snake was still alive and I was able to free it and let it go.Â
jdmidwest Posted July 22 Posted July 22 Looks more like the old black rat snake, Aka Chicken Snake.. If there is a mouse hole, there is a way in for them. Make sure he finds a new home far away. "Life has become immeasurably better since I have been forced to stop taking it seriously." — Hunter S. Thompson
Members GotaFish Posted July 22 Author Members Posted July 22 Thanks for the advice. I Goggled Chicken snake and the photos were a pretty good match. Â
Al Agnew Posted July 22 Posted July 22 "Chicken snake" is not a real name, but a colloquial one for a bunch of different species. This snake is a juvenile western rat snake, what used to be named a black rat snake. The biologists got together and decided to change the name a few years ago. The juvies have those badge-shaped blotches; they turn mostly black as they get older. Everybody in Missouri just calls them black snakes, but they also call speckled king snakes black snakes sometimes, too. And many people don't realize the young ones aren't black! Prairie king snakes look slightly similar, but the dark blotches on their backs are a lot narrower front to back than they are side to side. The blotches look a little like peanuts in the shell rather than badges.
Mitch f Posted July 22 Posted July 22 Hey @Al Agnew what kind of hawk is this?   "Honor is a man's gift to himself" Rob Roy McGregor
jdmidwest Posted July 22 Posted July 22 It's not your normal chicken hawk. "Life has become immeasurably better since I have been forced to stop taking it seriously." — Hunter S. Thompson
Johnsfolly Posted July 22 Posted July 22 Boy I say Boy.. That there is a chicken!!😆   nomolites, snagged in outlet 3 and Mitch f 3
dblades Posted July 22 Posted July 22 2 hours ago, jdmidwest said: It's not your normal chicken hawk. Probably a Northern Goshawk Mitch f 1
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