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Black Snake Eating A Copperhead

n/an/a Member Posts: 168,427 ✭
edited May 2009 in General Discussion
I happened to look out my back window and saw the blacksnake. I went to look closer and he was enjoying a nice meal of a baby copperhead.

One good reason to leave the blacksnakes be.[:D]

(sorry the pics arn't too good, I took them with my camera phone)

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  • mousemouse Member Posts: 3,624
    edited November -1
    Are rat snakes are deep chocolate brown, looking black in shadow.
    No white markings on ours. I leave em' alone and welcome them
    to my garden. Mouse

    Looked in my reptile books, and the young ones have the white
    coloration. Your picture is of a King snake. Rather had lots of them, and no copperheads!
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  • tomahawktomahawk Member Posts: 11,826
    edited November -1
    i think that may be a king snake
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  • n/an/a Member Posts: 168,427 ✭
    edited November -1
    quote:Originally posted by mouse
    Are rat snakes are deep chocolate brown, looking black in shadow.
    No white markings on ours. I leave em' alone and welcome them
    to my garden. Mouse

    Looked in my reptile books, and the young ones have the white
    coloration. Rather had lots of them, and no copperheads!
    There are plenty of copperheads around these parts.

    That was the first one I have seen near my house in 2 years though. I'm sure with that blackie around there wont be many around here though.
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  • n/an/a Member Posts: 168,427 ✭
    edited November -1
    quote:Originally posted by tomahawk
    i think that may be a king snake
    Blacksnakes are in the king snake family.
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  • hdcolt51hdcolt51 Member Posts: 4,584 ✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    Had one just like that strolling done my driveway last week,went and curled up in the bushes.Hope he sticks around.
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  • tomahawktomahawk Member Posts: 11,826
    edited November -1
    quote:Originally posted by *_r_done
    quote:Originally posted by tomahawk
    i think that may be a king snake
    Blacksnakes are in the king snake family.



    obama's in the whitehouse too but that don't make him welcome
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  • mousemouse Member Posts: 3,624
    edited November -1
    *-r-done, thanks for the pictures. I think they're pretty
    good for a cell phone. I wouldn't even know how to post mine
    off my phone.[:I]
    Glad to see another person who likes nature.
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  • chollagardenschollagardens Member Posts: 4,614 ✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    Eastern King snake Lampropeltis gettula gettula. AKA chain king snake. That is a fine speciman.
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  • fishkiller41fishkiller41 Member Posts: 50,608
    edited November -1
    I have seen them (King Snakes) with 2 heads.It's said, if U split his top lip, up to his nose, he will grow 2 heads. I dunno if it's true, but, i have seen one with 2 heads. In the Philadelphia Zoo.ALIVE.
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  • tomahawktomahawk Member Posts: 11,826
    edited November -1
    them chain kings are rare. they only are found in the carolinas.sell for 55.00 as pets[;)][:D]
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  • MBKMBK Member Posts: 2,918 ✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    When we lived in Connecticut, me and the kids came upon a Black Racer in the Talcott Notch Resevoir system. Wow! It jumped up about 2 feet and seemed to scram off without getting near the ground!

    Couple of years later we had a place in Avon, and a big water snake would catch trout from my stocked pond....what a place that was. It was on Avon Mountain east of Waterville Rd and Avon Old Farms.

    I went from there to Orcas...a bit west of (Scott of Mount Vernon) by ferry boat.
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  • nunnnunn Forums Admins, Member, Moderator Posts: 36,062 ******
    edited November -1
    There are no "black snakes," per se. There are black king snakes, black rat snakes, and black racers. Racers and kings will eat other snakes, even venomous ones. That is an Eastern King you have pictured there.
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