Baby snake

[Broncoman]

I just found this snake in my driveway when I was working on my car. Anyone know what kind it is?
Thanks,
Jeff

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[morti]

Looks like a brand new hatchling black racer to me. Cute little guy,

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[Adrya]

Oh dang, is that what baby black racers look like? I would never have known if I had ever seen one. lol

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[WVW]

i have no idea, but I want him. I love his pattern and color

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[xbigredtankx]

when they get older they become very dark in color and a lot of the time they have no brown left

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[telefrag]

uh.. mole snake (the kingsnake, not the african one)



Lampropeltis calligaster rhombomaculata

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[Adrya]

okay, now i'm a little confused. LOL

and dang, I wish I knew scientific names of reptiles as well as you, telefrag. lol

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[telefrag]

its NOT a black racer



I've been working on memorizing latin names for 20 years (yes, since I was 12)

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[morti]

That's not a black racer? Fooled me.



I just thought he had caught a light, pretty one.

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[xbigredtankx]

i dont know what it is, someone said they have never seen a racer, so i replied with they lose the brown as they get older.....

good stuff telefrag

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[ILoveMyBoa4209!F!]

Really cute little guy...

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[telefrag]

so what are you gonna do with it?

thats a pretty cool find, and they do make decent pets.

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[John_E_Dove]

Do it look like this?
http://www.bragg.army.mil/esb/Mole%20Kingsnake.jpg
Seems pretty much like it to me and the range is in the proper area.

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[piscivorus]

That's a juvenile mole king.

The easiest way to tell the difference in a juvenile mole king and black racer is to look at the scale above the eye. Black racers have more of a ridge than the mole kings, and mole kings have what appear to be a smaller head/no neck which helps them "swim" under mulch, etc.

It's also illegal to kill or keep any native nonvenomous snake in GA.

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[MegF]

You can't keep anything in GA! Reason one why I didn't move there.

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[Broncoman]

.... it's a free snake..... I let him go, in the woods beside my house, shortly after I took the pics.
Jeff

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[telefrag]

I didn't know about the GA laws, I guess I did, but it didn't register.
LOL

glad to hear he/she is snake at large once again.

it was a cool find, and not one you see everyday.

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[John_White]

It's a mole king.

Juvenile black racer

Juvenile mole kingsnake

[Broncoman]

My wife found another one by our front door. I just picked it up and took it to the woods and let it go...... no pics this time, batteries in the camera were dead.

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[_Sam_]

ggeebus. I want to find snakes in my driveway (and front door!!)
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