This is three pictures of the same snake, about 2.5 feet long.
Looks like a Black Racer to me, Coluber constrictor.
![[Right side]](http://www.okraparadisefarms.com/pictures/2024-09-05--snake/big/20240905_172831.jpg)
What do the experts say?
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![[Head]](http://www.okraparadisefarms.com/pictures/2024-09-05--snake/big/20240905_172840.jpg)
Tiny canebrake rattlesnake 2024-08-17
This timber rattlesnake was crossing our front driveway. Four dogs walked past and didn’t notice.
![[Tail and Head, canebrake timber rattlesnake 2024-08-17]](http://www.okraparadisefarms.com/pictures/2024-08-17--canebrake/many.jpg)
Tail and Head, canebrake timber rattlesnake 2024-08-17
In their defense, this snake was only maybe a foot and a half long. Still, a nice canebrake, Crotalus horridus.
Eat mice and get bigger, snake. Continue reading
Deceased snake 2024-03-03
What kind of snake is this?
Answer: grey rat snake, aka oak snake.
Seen 9:30 AM, March 3, 2024, Lowndes County, Georgia.
![[Head and body of snake]](http://www.okraparadisefarms.com/pictures/2024-03-03--snake-little-house/many.jpg)
It appeared to be deceased of natural causes. Continue reading
Snake in driveway 2023-08-08
Why are you lying in the driveway, snake?
![[Nice snake]](http://www.okraparadisefarms.com/pictures/2023-08-08--snake-driveway/20230808_124057.jpg)
Don’t you know there are dogs here?
Didn’t matter: the dogs never noticed.
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Snake of Yesterday 2021-10-12
The dogs alerted me to this.
![[Snake in the leaves]](http://www.okraparadisefarms.com/pictures/2021-10-12--canebrake-rattlesnake/big/20211012_163732.jpg)
Fortunately, they kept their distance.
How many rattles do you count?
-jsq
Serpent 2020-05-08
The least menacing snake you will see today.
![[Not moving very fast]](http://www.okraparadisefarms.com/pictures/2020-05-08--serpent/20200508_082734.jpg)
At the entrance to the Cypress Swamp. Brown Dog and Yellow Dog didn’t even notice.
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Snake chose poorly, say dogs 2019-05-18
Update 2019-05-20: A more likely identification.
Definitely not a rattlesnake. Whatever it is, it chose poorly by showing up right in front of the dogs’ doghouse.
Don’t know which dog dislikes them most, maybe Yellow Dog. Continue reading
Snake of the day
Mocassin
For the rest of the story, see Cottonmouth moccasin v Yellow Dog and Brown Dog @ OPF 2016-11-29.
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Smile, Houdini
Rachael Thompson trained this snake.
Yellow Dog, moccasin
Brown Dog and Gretchen are surprised
Gretchen Quarterman was surprised when Yellow Dog walked past me and picked up that snake about 4 feet to my left. I had backed off when I took this picture, but the venom splatter still got on my arm, which immediately started tingling. With a bit of soap and water, it’s fine. For once the Yellow Dog did not get bit. She did get some of the food she likes best and a bone. Brown Dog prudently stayed out of this one.
-jsq