Snake ID?

Caught this fellow swimming towards me today. He was a good 6 footer. This was in southern Florida in a slough.

http://web.mac.com/jfelbab/iWeb/Site...s/PICT1303.jpg

Well it's hard to tell, but I think it's either a eastern kingsnake or a banded watersnake?

Florida Kingsnake, Lampropeltis getula floridana


That looks like the extream southern morph. Are you located south of Okeechobee?

Dude, you rock!

looks a bit dark to me to be a florida, but That may be the wet look? I have only seen them in a cage :)

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Originally Posted by paulnj

Dude, you rock!

looks a bit dark to me to be a florida, but That may be the wet look? I have only seen them in a cage :)

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Florida Kings come in so many morphs, from almost completely gray, to almost jet black. Some have white stripes, some have yellow, some have gray. Some have no stripes and are completly covered in speckels. You never really know what you are gonna get with this species.

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Originally Posted by almo

Florida Kingsnake, Lampropeltis getula floridana


That looks like the extream southern morph. Are you loacted south of Okeechobee?

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Thanks. This snake was in a Fort Myers area so mostly west and a bit south of Okeechobee.

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Originally Posted by jfelbab

Thanks. This snake was in a Fort Myers area so mostly west and a bit south of Okeechobee.

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Ok, that sounds about right. Northern part of that morph's range, but still well within it.

Nice shot.

Great shot!!

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Originally Posted by OldSchool

Great shot!!

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Thanks, it turned out better than I had any right to expect. I didn't have a polarizer but I must have been at a good angle.

Im gonna say its a cool Capture , but God do i hate snakes :)

Im gonna second that Knight!!

Ditto that, Bev & Knight. If I had a picture of a snake, it'd be moving away from me, not towards me! And it would be a very blurry picture, since I'd be running in the other direction at a pretty good clip.

But it's a great shot of a snake in a natural setting.

“There is nothing more frightful than ignorance in action.”

~Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

What about this one John? shot june 10th 2004 and it's a young one(under 16 inches as I remember)

I think I have an idea, but will leave the ID to the master ;)

It's a Banded Water Snake, Nerodia fasciata.

It would help if you guys would include the general location where you shot these images. I am asuming this was shot in the Ft. Myers area.

actually, it was taken a few miles from my home in Central NJ ;)

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Originally Posted by paulnj

actually, it was taken a few miles from my home in Central NJ ;)

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That's ok, they live there too.:)