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To ask a question about a snake, don't reply to this post, go to the forum home page and start a new post. Your question will get a lot more exposure. Please give us an idea of where you live, as reptiles can often be identified only by locality!
Please do not place messages about killing a snake, and asking what kind it is you have killed! That is like going onto a message board about dogs and telling about torturing one to death, and asking what kind of breed it was. You will likely get "flamed", and likely by the forum owner, depending on his mood that day.
A note about head shape in snakes: Head shape is a totally useless character for identifying a snake, and has nothing to do with whether the serpent is or is not venomous (poisonous). Many harmless snakes, especially when young, have rather large heads. Please describe color, pattern, markings, and habitat where the snake was found. The shape of the head will not help us in any way.
Thank you.
Re: Hatchling
Posted by Michael
on September 12, 2005, 10:41 pm, in reply to "Hatchling"
12.214.188.174
Strangley, this is the closest pictuer I've come to on the web and this snake is from Massachussets!(?).
http://www.umass.edu/nrec/snake_pit/pages/brown.html--Previous Message--
: I found a small snake in my yard that is
: hard to identify. I'm usually good at
: this but this one stumped me. I live in
: North Alabama and the snake is too
: small to really have a pattern but it
: is light brown in color with tiny dark
: brown spots that form two lines going
: down it's back and deminish near the
: tail. His underside is a solid light
: brown (lighter that his back) his head
: is a darker brown and slightly grey
: near the tip. He has two brown cresents
: behind the head (one on each side) and
: looks like two smaller ones turned the
: opposite direction about the ears. what
: is it?
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