Miguel Cervantes
Jedi Master
Not sure I'd call that a pine snake and dang sure I wouldn't be picking it up until I could positively ID it. That dang thing has cobra stripes on it!!!
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Georgia Pine Snake - how rare is this snake
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Not sure I'd call that a pine snake and dang sure I wouldn't be picking it up until I could positively ID it. That dang thing has cobra stripes on it!!!
BowanaLee
Senior Member
Never seen one in the wild but its not enough of a lookalike to fake me off.
swamp hunter
Senior Member
Yea, I'd leave him be..take a couple pictures.
Thanks for Posting.
Being honest most Folks I know in N. Fla and South Alabama will run the truck into the ditch to kill any snake..I'm tryin to teach them ...one at a time..
Thanks for Posting.
Being honest most Folks I know in N. Fla and South Alabama will run the truck into the ditch to kill any snake..I'm tryin to teach them ...one at a time..
PappyHoel
Senior Member
Pappy, what county?
They are quite uncommon. Reinhardt University maintains a data collection program called Project Pine Snake for sightings. http://blogs.reinhardt.edu/projectpinesnake/
Good info. I will check it out. This was spotted near the Dawson/Lumpkin County line.
Permitchaser
Senior Member
That snake has a diamond head meaning poison
Lukikus2
Senior Member
Chicken snake. And they do climb trees.
swamp hunter
Senior Member
Fake Snake..just like a Black Banded Water Snake looking like a Cottonmouth and a Scarlet King snake looking like a Coral Snake.
Evolution didn't consider Apes climbing down from trees and making Browning Auto 5's....
Evolution didn't consider Apes climbing down from trees and making Browning Auto 5's....
Jeff Raines
Senior Member
Some snakes can flatten their heads so that they appear to look like their venomous cousins.
doeboy1
Senior Member
It did not have a diamond head untill it noticed me. At that point it coiled and hissed loudly. It is without a doubt a FL pine snake and lived to see another day.
oppthepop
Senior Member
Just saw one post that related the Pine Snake to a "Bull snake." anybody who has hunted out west for a while knows full well what a bull snake is and how they react when threatened. they flatten their head and hiss and are quite the formidable reptile. I call them the eastern king snake of the west. I would really like to see a "pine snake' someday - looks really cool.
HM
Senior Member
Me too, a wild pine would be a lifer!
The wife found a mole king this morning, another one I've yet to see in the wild.
Miguel Cervantes
Jedi Master
I couldn't figure that one out either. They are in the same genus but not the same species. Odd that they framed it that way.
Me too, a wild pine would be a lifer!
The wife found a mole king this morning, another one I've yet to see in the wild.
I found one of those on my property in SC this spring. First one I'd ever seen-very cool snake.
I`ve only seen a couple. They are tough snake to find or run up on.
Bucky T
GONetwork Member
I've never seen one in the wild.
Nick84
Member
I have seen quite a few of them in eastern NC where I grew up, one was an absolute monster at first glance I thought he was boa.
ADDICTED2HUNTIN
Senior Member
Never seen one of those!
Nice find!
Nice find!
Cherokee76
Member
Greetings - Pappy or others - I am trying to track down the when and where behind this sighting. I maintain the database that HM referred to above. Our goal is to understand how common this species is and sightings like this are critical to our understanding. We are getting some good records in the Piedmont, but the Blue Ridge populations (Lumpkin/Dawson) seem to be much smaller and so this is a great sighting! Could someone PM me with the details of when and where the photo was taken? THANKS!!
Mr. Fishunt
Senior Member
Pine Snake?
My son is a Park Ranger at a north Georgia State Park.
He caught this snake a week ago.
When I first saw the top picture, I thought it was a Pine Snake, however, I wasn't sure due to the geographic range maps, therefore, we presumed it was a Gray Rat Snake.
I have also attached a photo of me with a Bull Snake from Cheesman Canyon in Colorado. (I'm the good looking guy in the blue shirt.) The Bull Snake was climbing up the cliff behind me, hence the lighter color. (By the way, the fly fishing was excellent.)
They definitely look related.
Now I'm not so sure, which is which.
What do you all think? Could it be a "Blue Ridge Population" Pine Snake?
Regards,
Mr. Fishunt
My son is a Park Ranger at a north Georgia State Park.
He caught this snake a week ago.
When I first saw the top picture, I thought it was a Pine Snake, however, I wasn't sure due to the geographic range maps, therefore, we presumed it was a Gray Rat Snake.
I have also attached a photo of me with a Bull Snake from Cheesman Canyon in Colorado. (I'm the good looking guy in the blue shirt.) The Bull Snake was climbing up the cliff behind me, hence the lighter color. (By the way, the fly fishing was excellent.)
They definitely look related.
Now I'm not so sure, which is which.
What do you all think? Could it be a "Blue Ridge Population" Pine Snake?
Regards,
Mr. Fishunt
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