Snake ID?

[Berryhill]

Any help would be appreciated. Thanks.

 

[gtparts]

Appears to be a hognose.

 

[Berryhill]

Gosh, I was way off. Thought it might be an Eastern Milk Snake

 

[blood on the ground]

got me?

 

[hunter rich]

hognose...

 

[NCHillbilly]

Yep, hognose, AKA "spreading adder." They're harmless little fellers, eat mostly toad frogs. And getting rare. I haven't seen one around here in about thirty years.

 

[Bucky T]

Eastern Hognose

 

[Nicodemus]

They were common when I was growin` up down here, but got kinda scarce. But for the last couple of years, I`ve had a good crop of both that color and the jet black ones here around the house. They`ve put a hurtin` on my toad frogs, which is why they hang around.

 

[Bucky T]

They were common when I was growin` up down here, but got kinda scarce. But for the last couple of years, I`ve had a good crop of both that color and the jet black ones here around the house. They`ve put a hurtin` on my toad frogs, which is why they hang around.

I see them every year around my hunting camp in Screven C.

The only rear fanged snake in N. America.

Pretty much impossible to make one bite you, and I never can resist making one of them do their entire "show".

Puff up like a cobra and hiss, then flip over and flop around, cough up a couple of recently devoured toads, then lay motionless on its back, mouth agape, tongue rolled out, playing the best game of possum in the animal kingdom!!

 

[Nicodemus]

I see them every year around my hunting camp in Screven C.

The only rear fanged snake in N. America.

Pretty much impossible to make one bite you, and I never can resist making one of them do their entire "show".

Puff up like a cobra and hiss, then flip over and flop around, cough up a couple of recently devoured toads, then lay motionless on its back, mouth agape, tongue rolled out, playing the best game of possum in the animal kingdom!!

Yea, I love to watch em do their act.

Sounds kind cruel, but about 15 years ago, there was a big distinctive colored toad that hung around the back door. I called him Chester. I went out one mornin` and a big black spreadin` adder had Chester just about swallered, just his head and one front leg was all that still visible. Weren`t nothin` to do but set there and watch the proceedins`.

 

[Bucky T]

LOL!

I'm actually kind of glad that Hognose snakes don't prefer the piedmont habitat that I live in.

I like my toads. Bug killing machines! Only thing is, I have to sweep their poo off the porches daily.

 

[hiawassee1]

Berryhill looks like your son got the first look at him, nice avatar.

When my oldest was his age his hair would always stand up like that

 

[dawg2]

I see them every year around my hunting camp in Screven C.

The only rear fanged snake in N. America.

Pretty much impossible to make one bite you, and I never can resist making one of them do their entire "show".

Puff up like a cobra and hiss, then flip over and flop around, cough up a couple of recently devoured toads, then lay motionless on its back, mouth agape, tongue rolled out, playing the best game of possum in the animal kingdom!!

Actually there are more in our area. The garter and the southeastern crowned snake are rear fanged.


Glad to see a live hognose in that pic. Very cool snakes

 

[arrendale8105]

Definitely fun snakes to watch. I was cleaning up under my shelter last sunday and came across the biggest one I've ever seen and man did he put on a show! Didn't even attemp to bite me when I picked him up and took him over to the cotton field and turned him loose.