What kind of snake is this?

[reed1285]

This guy almost bit the dust under my mower the other day. I ended up letting him go a different part of the yard that i had already mowed, figuring he was harmless and would grow up to eat unwanted pests/rodents. Any ideas what kind it was?

 

Edited May 5, 2014 by reed1285

[UncleJak]

Dekay brown snake...I think... Sent barefoot from the hills of Tennessee

[bersaguy]

I was thinking maybe a Spreading Adder................... :whistle:

[reed1285]

Unclejak i think your right

[Randall53]

The kind that makes you hit trees at a dead run?

[bersaguy]

The kind that makes you hit trees at a dead run?

Are you saying that you just don't like snakes or have a lot of respect for them and they might make you hurt your self giving them room....................... :rofl: :rofl:

[UncleJak]

I'm pretty sure I'm right because I had one just like it last year. But my dad would say it's either a copperhead or a rattlesnake depending on if it had a rattle or not....:) Sent barefoot from the hills of Tennessee

[ls3_kid]

I hate snakes.  The only good kind is the dead kind.

[Hozzie]

I'm pretty sure I'm right because I had one just like it last year. But my dad would say it's either a copperhead or a rattlesnake depending on if it had a rattle or not....:)Sent barefoot from the hills of Tennessee

Your dad sounds like a smart man :-)


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[Randall53]

Are you saying that you just don't like snakes or have a lot of respect for them and they might make you hurt your self giving them room....................... :rofl: :rofl:

Yes!!! Edited May 6, 2014 by Randall53

[vontar]

Looks just like one I got with the Lawn mower the other day.  I don't think anything special. 

[bigun]

I think it's a cotton tailed, rattle headed, copper mouth. The most dangerous of all.

[Shug]

One in heat, So there will be thousands more searching for her

[Raoul]

Could be either a brown snake or a copperhead. You'll know pretty quickly if it bites you.

[Fourtyfive]

Don't really matter , it's against the law to kill any snake in Tennessee. Right ?

http://www.ehow.com/info_8718418_laws-killing-snakes-tennessee.html Edited May 6, 2014 by Fourtyfive

[.357SIG]

It is a brown snake, not a copperhead. It may be a juvenile but they don't get much bigger than that.

[R_Bert]

Could be either a brown snake or a copperhead. You'll know pretty quickly if it bites you.

It's not a copperhead.  Vipers have a triangular head.

[.357SIG]

It's not a copperhead.  Vipers have a triangular head.

 

And all four of the venomous snake species are pit vipers, meaning that they have pits located on the sides of their heads that allow them to sense heat from potential prey.

[Randall53]

Don't really matter , it's against the law to kill any snake in Tennessee. Right ?

http://www.ehow.com/info_8718418_laws-killing-snakes-tennessee.html

 

Damn....I'm in BIG trouble.... :panic: :panic: :panic: :panic: :panic:

[Fourtyfive]

Damn....I'm in BIG trouble.... :panic: :panic: :panic: :panic: :panic:

Keep an eye out for black Suburbans and helicopters around you house now.

[reed1285]

It's not a copperhead.  Vipers have a triangular head.

 

That is one thing I knew about it pretty quick. That it had a completely rounded head and was MOST LIKELY harmless. If I wouldve seen a triangular shape hinting at venom glands, he would have met the Troy Bilt.

[bersaguy]

Yes!!!

So I'm guess that yes is to all of the above huh?......Not going to pick or poke at you for this because i know many people that are scare to death of them and rightfully so. Even though very very few people get bit by venomous snakes and even fewer that do die I  think almost every one in the back of their minds remembers that it was a snake that made the land of Eden go bye bye by talking Eve into eating from the tree and the Eve convinced Adam and we all know the rest of the story. With that said I respect snakes that are venomous with a bullet of two and the non venomous ones I do cut some slack because for the most part to do things that help man such and kill Rodents and also keep us in our running mode if startled by one which keeps you in practice for the dangerous ones. I use to know a man that was so afraid of them that a friend of his is dead, killed by him over a joke of throwing a rubber snake in his lap and he shot him dead on the spot before he even took time to see it was a fake one. The Judge and Jury found him innocent of all charges because everyone knew about his fear of snakes. He never forgave himself for killing his friend and he passed away about 10 years later. So I know the fear folks can have about them.

Edited May 6, 2014 by bersaguy

[JAB]

Don't really matter , it's against the law to kill any snake in Tennessee. Right ?

http://www.ehow.com/info_8718418_laws-killing-snakes-tennessee.html

 

I am definitely not a lawyer but I think that site takes a pretty extreme view of what the law really says.  In my reading, I would say it is more like it is illegal to go hunting snakes to kill in Tennessee out in the wild.  I don't think that killing one in your yard is going to bring the herpetoswat team down on you.  I'd bet you could even get away with killing one in the woods on private property or maybe even killing an immediately threatening one on public land.  I don't have a 'terminate with extreme prejudice' view of snakes but also don't freak out when someone mentions killing them.  To me (from a 'moral' standpoint), killing a nuisance snake is no different than killing a nuisance possum, a nuisance raccoon or any, other varmint.  My belief is that isn't hunting.  It's pest control.

Edited May 6, 2014 by JAB

[Fourtyfive]

I am definitely not a lawyer but I think that site takes a pretty extreme view of what the law really says.  In my reading, I would say it is more like it is illegal to go hunting snakes to kill in Tennessee out in the wild.  I don't think that killing one in your yard is going to bring the herpetoswat team down on you.  I'd bet you could even get away with killing one in the woods on private property or maybe even killing an immediately threatening one on public land.  I don't have a 'terminate with extreme prejudice' view of snakes but also don't freak out when someone mentions killing them.  To me (from a 'moral' standpoint), killing a nuisance snake is no different than killing a nuisance possum, a nuisance raccoon or any, other varmint.  My belief is that isn't hunting.  It's pest control.

 

Trust me , I don't really care what you do with them. A lot of people are just surprised to learn that law.

[Patton]

The only reason that law was enacted was because people used to kill all snakes believing they were all venomous. It was only an attempt to save as many non venomous as they could from shovels.