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Grass Snake on the move. Thanks to everyone who takes the time to view, like or leave a comment. Always appreciated
Milk Snakes are non venomous but they can pack a mean bite and draw blood! As first hand witnessed as a boy. These snakes can reach between 3-6 ft. long.
Interesting thing was this snake coiled up on me when in the grass and vibrated his tail just like a rattle snake! He struck at the stick I put near him!
Snake 11, an F-18C from VMFA-323 "Death Rattlers" just seconds away from landing at Scottsdale Airport followed by three other Snakes.
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Wide angle shot of a a beautiful adult male Smooth Snake (Coronella austriaca). He was seen actively crossing a road on a sunny afternoon running through a steep and elevated patch of open Juniper woodland (Juniperus foetidissima). The location was Mikri Prespa NP in Greece.
Grass Snake / natrix helvetica. 09/07/22.
With just head above the water, this stationary Grass Snake was looking for prey.
BEST VIEWED LARGE.
These are common snakes, but I always like seeing them. I found this one on a recent trip to visit my aunt and uncle on their farm in eastern South Dakota, warming itself in a patch of sun on a cool September morning. (Thamnophis radix)
I don't want to overdo things with the snakes but we really only see them like this once a year when they leave their dens and mate before spending the summer in their home ranges. They can be seen returning to their dens in the Autumn but not in this posture...Western wandering garter snakes (Thamnophis elegans vagrans). Photo by Frank
A brown Gardner snake in my backyard. It was raining. I got too close, and it curled up and gave me the death stare, so I snapped one last photo and left it alone, but I'm glad I took one more shot! :)
I know that I have uploaded two close-up shots of my local Grass Snake sighting, but this one of it swimming towards me shows the whole animal. This was taken at Scout Dike reservoir near Penistone recently. It wasn't huge but my guess was that it was still about a metre in length, which is about half the length they can grow to. As soon as I saw it I knew exactly what it was as only a snake makes those sinuous movements as it "snakes" through the water. The water surface was mirror smooth but you can see he has created quite a few ripples of his own. I have only seen one Grass Snake swimming before and that was at Potteric Carr near Doncaster last year while I was watching the nesting Black-winged Stilts. But that sighting was brief and too far away to photograph.
I should mention that British Grass Snakes have now been classified as Barred Grass Snakes (Natrix helvetica). It has been taxonomically split from the Eastern Grass Snake (Natrix natrix) which was previously thought to inhabit Britain. The Eastern Grass Snake retained the scientific name (Natrix natrix) because Linnaeus first named it from Sweden, where the Eastern species occurs. Barred Grass Snake (N. helvetica) occurs from the Rhine westwards to the Pyrenees including Britain. Eastern Grass Snake (N. natrix) occurs west of the Rhine and in Scandinavia. Interestingly a small number of Grass Snakes from southern and southeastern Europe have been found in Britain but these were discounted as certain escapes from the pet trade. These were of the subspecies Natrix natrix persa which has not quite separated as a full species from the Eastern Grass Snake. The nominate subspecies of Eastern Grass Snake (Natrix natrix natrix) has not been recorded in Britain, not even as an escaped pet. The scientific name helvetica was the name we used to use for our British subspecies of Grass Snake, which also occurs in parts of Europe. Its distinguishing features were a barred body and a less prominent yellow collar (compared with Eastern European/Scandinavian Grass Snakes). The name helvetica is the Latin name for Switzerland, where Barred Grass Snake also occurs.
Common in the Ozarks region, this venomous pit viper is a water moccasin, usually found around rivers and ponds, and though we have a small stream that crosses our farm, much of the year it dries up so we don't see these snakes, fortunately.
Farancia erytrogramma. One of my herpy spies indicates that this individual may be infected with a fungus.
This tiny fella is still hanging around. It was a great test for my new Tamron 90mm macro. Probably the most difficult snake to photograph I've encountered, he's very tiny (about 5 inches) and squirmy.
Here's a cute little snake we found crossing the road in Madagascar.
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The striking simplicity of a black and white colour scheme has always been appealing to my minimalist sensibilities, so imagine the delight at seeing for the first time, a beautiful eastern king snake in all its monochrome glory.
Seen in the Pine Barrens, New Jersey.
90 cm length
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A snake boy in Varanasi, India.
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