Snake ID please

[Mudslinger]

KIller cobra at the lease this morning, BUT really, what is this beautiful snake that scared the you know what out of us!

[BayouCat]

Coachwhip

[dope hunter]

Coachwhip

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[jerp]

They do have one “ cobra-like” trait. You sometimes see them zipping along with their head and about 1/3rd of their body up off the ground.

[joel45acp]

Texas brown tree mamba. Choot it!

[RattlesnakeDan]

Coachwhip...Friendly too!

[doghouse]

Coach whip but my Dad always called them prairie racers.

[Shinesintx]

Imagine my surprise that it wasn’t a rat snek.

[DRT]

Fast. Good to have around.

[Black Ice]

Imagine my surprise that it wasn’t a rat snek.

Lol


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[Gummi Bear]

They’re really fast, and good at their job catching rodents.

Hard to catch, and a little ornery if you do manage to catch one.



I went to the woods because I wished to live deliberately...

Henry David Thoreau

[Thumper]

Western Choachwip.

Easterns are black, in west tx they are redish-pink or purple.

[muzzlebrake]

Mostly they eat rats and mice but they will eat small rattlesnakes so that makes them one of the best snakes to have around your camp---------------or house.
We have or had two living in an old tree stump out at the lease in Sterling Co for several years. One was big at close to 7 ft long and fast. We would find several skin sheds every year so we knew it was being well fed and rats and mice were not much of a problem. Was not uncommon to find one up under the hood of lease vehicles doing what they do best.

[haas0311]

gopher snake, I think..

[Montec man]

They're fast as lightning. The thoroughbred of Texas snakes