Water snake?

[Amiechan]

I saw this guy lounging beside the creek in front of our apartment.
Kindof funny because we live in a fairly busy part of the town..lol..

[snakemann6]

that looks like a moucsin or cotton mouth....but he is a pretty snake...

[Hikoseijuro]

its a water snake nice one too what the sad thing is .. so many people kill them because they look like a cotton mouth ahh makes me want to hit anyone who kills a snake .. my brother hates them uses the saying .. only good snake is a dead one kills every one he sees .. he goes out of his way to run over them .. well we get in to alot of fights over it too hehe im working on him :P atleast he does not do it near as bad as he used too

[natedoggSXE]

It is not a cotton mouth or water moucsin. It is a non vemonous water snake and depending on where you live its probably either a nothern water snake or a banded water snake. There harmless, but they can bite ya pretty vicisously. They are often killed for being thought of being a cotton mouth when in fact they are harmless beautiful snakes. They can live in urban environments better than most snakes speices and better than most animals speceis along polluted urban creeks.

[BWSmith]

Northern Water Snake

[savannah_babe]

bw is good knew he needed to stick around for a reason nice find amy---encounter anything else so far this year?

[John_White]

[Stormyva]

It's a shame that the differences arent more obvious to people.

Then again as a snake is shooting off through underbrush they tend to look very similar

[savannah_babe]

when you dont know any better, i could see how someone might think so. *shrug* it is a shame--but some will not listen..heh..

[toker]

wow, the difference is night and day.

[BWSmith]

Well, that is also a juvinile Cotton so it still has the bright colors. As they grow, Cottons darken a great deal.