Pretty little Snake

[jp77]

ok guys, I am new on here but my well trained eye and my skilled field training as a certified registered and calibrated snake-ologist tells that what you have there is the all elusive "Rattleheadedcoppermossikeen" beware of this animal.......

[A&M 90]

It is a cottonmouth. Juvi copperheads and cottonmouths are almost identical. Cottonmouths have the dark line running from the tip of the nose through the eye to the back of the head. Copperheads have a much lighter colored line. That is a baby cottonmouth.

http://www.kingsnake.com/stha/wester...opperhead.jpeg

Agreed. Very well could have been a baby water moccasin.

[native_texan]

I ain't getting that close to check what kind it is ... it's history .... and oh, yes, I scream like a little girl when I find one close to my hand or foot.

[humphra]

If in doubt look at its tail. If it is green its poisonous. I believe it goes for all except coral snakes. This comes from a snake expert that was brought out to our plant to help identify snakes.

[Bily Lovec]

If in doubt look at its tail. If it is green its poisonous. I believe it goes for all except coral snakes. This comes from a snake expert that was brought out to our plant to help identify snakes.

Interesting...
because no snakes are poisonious...

there are several venomous snakes crawling around thou....

[humphra]

MY MISTAKE! Get bit by one and you wont care... lol

[jesterdoc]

That's a copperhead. Down here where I am, we see them from brown/brownish red to almost greyish brown.

This is kind of a moot point, copperhead or cottonmouth will both put a hurtin' on ya that ends in a ginormous ER bill.

[Codie]

copper , cotton - who gives a rip! He would be dead if he was in my yard

[Gerald G]

Yep, that`s one of those!

[Hot4huntin]

I believe it is a juvi cottonmouth. I came face to face with one a little bigger than that when Hunter and I were spotlighting for crawfish in the ditch. He popped his head up out of the water right as I was reaching down to catch a crawfish.

[Tommyh]

Did you reach out and pluck its eye out with your lightning strike?!

[JBH1979]

I'm no snake expert but it looks close to a rat snake as well. Check out the pic.