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 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
Moccasin
Yellow Dog caught it. Brown Dog brought it to me.
Corn snake on land and in hand
Fortunately Yellow Dog and Brown Dog weren’t around when I stopped the tractor
to wait for this corn snake to slither across.
Later I showed it to Gretchen (see below). Continue reading
A girl and her Yellow Dog
Dogs and moccasin
Corn snake in the hand
Snake in the grass and in the hand:
Yellow Dog caught this snake by the swamp. She set it down when I told her too (I was surprised). When she and Brown Dog went off in the brush, I picked it up to transport it where they wouldn’t get it again. Snake on the skin: Continue reading
Yellow Dog and her snake
My snake!
Pictures by John S. Quarterman for Okra Paradise Farms, Lowndes County, Georgia, 11 October 2012.
The dogs barked up a storm while I was picking okra, and by the time I got there the snake was in sad shape. Too bad, as I keep explaining to Brown Dog and Yellow Dog, snakes eat mice.
-jsq