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My family and I were walking a path right along a small lake when I noticed this snake following us just off shore.
Turkey Run Park, McLean, Virginia. If you look carefully near the bottom of the falls, you'll see a Northern Watersnake. I did not notice it until I processed this image.
This feisty little fella was about 8 inches long, hiding under a rock by the creek. He was the perfect size to test a new flash set up. What do ya think?
This female Midland Watersnake was basking near a nature trail in north Georgia with dozens of unaware people strolling only feet away.
Very young, small plain-bellied water snake. It was partially submerged in thick gummy silt in a shallow rain pool in the marshy area on the side of the pier. It lifted its head out of the water to get a look at me. There are 2 kinds of water snakes I see all the time at the lake. Plain-bellied and diamondback. Both can be patterned or solid colored but their eyes are very different. This one has pale eyes you see here. The other one has deep orange eyes. Both are harmless and not aggressive.
Plain-bellied Water Snake (Nerodia erythrogaster)
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On a couple of days on Pelee Island the weather was not conducive to birding, so Paul, Jodie and I spent some time in the wet woods looking for snakes and amphibians. The Lake Erie Watersnake is only found on the islands in the southwest corner of Lake Erie, including Pelee. The snake is listed as 'of special concern' because of habitat destruction (through coastal development) and erosion. While this was a young snake, it can grow to be a metre in length. It feeds on fish and other creatures in the waters offshore, and then makes its home in the damp woods near the shoreline. It is non-venomous.
This feisty little fella was about 8 inches long, hiding under a rock by the creek. He was the perfect size to test a new flash set up. What do ya think?
You never know what you are going to see when walking along a creek bank. There was a lot of debris in the water due to thunderstorms & it took me awhile to figure out what I was looking at. The snake is a big female diamondback water snake & the fish turned out to be a yellow bullhead catfish. The snake has unhinged her jaw in an attempt to swallow the fish. You can see the fish's eye below the snake's eye.
Female Diamondback watersnake (Nerodia rhombifer)
Yellow Bullhead Catfish (Ameiurus natalis)
White Rock Lake, Dallas Texas
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Lots of activity today in the watersnake clan. There were watersnakes just about everywhere I looked in the poind and marsh areas. Some were foraging but most were seemingly following pheramone trails looking for females.Kensington Metro Park, MI
Shipman, Virginia, USA. See my recent picture titled River Trail Pond for the general habitat (pond also had wood ducks and blue corporals). The location is at about 600 feet of elevation. The snake was at the marshy edge of the pond, and it's head was a little bigger than a square inch. I know nothing about snakes, so any ID help is appreciated.
Can you see me now? He did a fair job of hiding his head... too bad his whole, rather fat body was draped up across the rocks in plain view getting those few peaks of sun we had yesterday! :)
Common Watersnake (Northern Watersnake) - Nerodia sipedon ssp. sipedon
A group of these was basking at the base of the historic Yates Mill building, right next to a trail. Another photographer showed them to me--I would have walked right by them otherwise.
Even though the Watersnake is harmless, I kind of check where I stand or sit down in that area.... you never know which rock they will come out from....
The biggest of the three is the female and the other two are males.
wild at Huie wetlands, GA - straight off of camera. Thanks to David Scott & J.D. Willson of UGA, and Tom Spinker below, for the ID.
(I've got lots of shots of this guy ... if anyone would like to see a full shot just send me your eaddr.)
Explore, April 13, 2009 seen @ 235, later 125
Winner, Beautiful World Challenge Group 10, Animals with Zero Legs 7-09
A pair of Northern Watersnakes (Nerodia sipedon) at the Audubon Broadmoor Wildlife Sanctuary, Natick MA.
The Northern Watersnake is a subspecies of the Common Watersnake, a species of large, nonvenomous, common snake in the family Colubridae. It can grow up to 135 cm (4 ft 5 in) in total length.
The Common Watersnake is found throughout eastern and central North America, from southern Ontario and southern Quebec in the north, to Texas and Florida in the south.
During the day, it hunts among plants at the water's edge, looking for small fish, frogs, worms, leeches, crayfish, salamanders, small birds, and mammals. At night, it concentrates on minnows and other small fish resting in shallow water.
The Common Watersnake is common over most of its range and is frequently seen basking on stream banks. If cornered or captured, it will defend itself. Larger specimens can inflict a painful bite.
Stony Swamp, Ottawa, Ontario, Canada. June 2016.