What is this?

I know its not the best picture, but a friend in Jacksonville Fl found this on the porch (They thought it was a boa), and to me it looks like a colubird, can you try your best oh my mighty gurus to tell me what it is??

http://i.imgur.com/0h1Fy.jpg

Looks kinda like a rat snake to me.

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Originally Posted by Nathair

Looks kinda like a rat snake to me.

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thats what im thinking....

I thought rat or garter, in that order. Does it look like a black rat snake? I've heard they darken as they get older.


Ball Pythons
0.3 Normals (Coilette, Athena and Mary Jane)
1.0 Pastel (De Sol)
1.0 Spider (Zeus)
1.0 Mojave (Prometheus)

Boa Constrictors
0.1 Brazilian Rainbow Boa (Stella)
0.1 BCI (Kiyoko)
0.1 Dumerils Boa (Gloria)
0.1 Yellow Anaconda (Serenity)

Safe bet it's a rat snake, either Black or Eastern (sometimes they are used as the same snake though improperly)

I'm reasonably sure this is a young black rat snake. It is a little hard to judge from the picture, so I could be wrong, but Easterns usually have a more distinct pattern. Black rats have pattern while they're young and it'll fade drastically as the snake gets older. Cute little guy! :gj:

Looks like a gray rat to me.