Z-Car » snakes on a plane http://www.z-car.com/blog Gary's Ramblings about everything from Cars to the idea of US Energy Independence Fri, 30 Jul 2010 20:46:45 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0.1 Snakes on a Plane – Or at Least in my Backyard http://www.z-car.com/blog/2009/11/07/snakes-on-a-plane-or-at-least-in-my-backyard http://www.z-car.com/blog/2009/11/07/snakes-on-a-plane-or-at-least-in-my-backyard#comments Sat, 07 Nov 2009 13:55:16 +0000 gsmith http://www.z-car.com/blog/?p=512 We have had several friendly snake visitors to our house the past few months.  While I often dismiss them as harmless, my wife is always concerned that we have poisonous rattlers roaming the yard.  I usually try to get a picture of each one so that I can try and make a positive identification.   Here are two of the most recent vipers.

This little guy appears to be a Eastern Ribbon Snake, Thamnophis sauritus.

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I believe that this is a Black Rat Snake (Elaphe obsoleta), although my wife is convinced that it is a Timber Rattlesnake (Crotalus horridus).  What do you think?

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