Type of snakes you have seen in your area???

I live in NE Philly and we dont have that much but here are the ones I've seen growing up.

Garter Snake
Northern Brown Snake
Black Racer
Eastern Ringneck Snake
Mountain Earth Snake
Black Rat Snake

Pretty common but of well.

MS here

Cotton mouth
Copperhead
Eastern Diamondback
Timber Rattler
Kings
Corns
Ribbon

I have seen ever type of snake they MS Dept. of Wildlife says we have except a coral snake I have never seen one of those in the wild.

Idaho here

Lots of Rubber Boas :D
Garters
There are some other snakes I haven't identified yet. I am going out this weeked hopefully (hopes and hopes) I will get some pics if I find anything.

Garters

Copperheads
Brown snakes
Ringnecks
Black Rats
Water snakes

My area is CT

~ mike

I've seen a baby copperhead a little north of philadelphia.

Goregous colors on the snake too.

Here is a link to my wildlife page. It pretty much has all of the kinds that I have seen in Louisiana. As I catch them, I take a pic. There may be two or three not on there that I have seen because I didn't have the camera, but it's pretty complete. I would love to take a pic of every native species of snake in Louisiana for that, but it will take some time. Especially with 12 species of water snakes alone down here. Enjoy,
http://www.baileyreptiles.com/wildlife.html

Eastern Diamondback
Moccasin
ratsnakes/cornsnakes(red ones and yellow ones)
black racers
green snakes
grass snakes(legless lizards??)
indigo
coral
pygmy rattlers
Florida

I personally have encountered:

Eastern Hognose
Copperhead
Some kinds of small grass snakes?
A very small brown/tan snake, seemed to be a burrowing species?

Coral snakes are also popular, but I have not come across one.

Eastern Fox Snake
Eastern Milk Snake
Eastern Hognose
Eastern Garter Snake
RedBellied Snake
Brown Snake
Butlers Garter Snake
Northern Water Snake (Satan reborn, I swear!)
Blue Racer

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Originally Posted by AndrewH

Northern Water Snake (Satan reborn, I swear!)

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haha all are!

~mike

all i've seen around here are water snakes(not sure which), garter snakes, and hognose

Hmmm...so far this year:
Black ratsnake
Eastern Kingsnake (which I relocated to my barn :D )
Green snake
corn snake
Water Moccasin
Copperhear
Black Racer

Eastern Ohio....


Garter Snakes
Dekay Snakes
Black Rat Snakes
Eastern Ringneck Snakes
Eastern Milksnakes
Northern Water Snake (completely agree with their aggressive nature!!)

That is all I have ran across that I can think of at the moment......

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Eastern Ohio....


Garter Snakes
Dekay Snakes
Black Rat Snakes
Eastern Ringneck Snakes
Eastern Milksnakes
Northern Water Snake (completely agree with their aggressive nature!!)

That is all I have ran across that I can think of at the moment......

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Yep, I'm NW Ohio. I actively go look, and come across Water snakes most frequently. Fox Snakes are the hardest to find now. I'll be lucky to see one live and moving each year.

only 2 species of snake in my area
the Adder and the Grass Snake

I have personally seen these within an hour's drive from our place.
-Garters; (there are some living in our dirtfloor basement, and they are all over the farm too.) I caught a nice checkered one last year that was a) huge, and b) mad! Musked me to no end.
-Red Belly Racers; they are a bit harder to find it seems, but they are around here too; some usually live in a pile of old roofing shingles out behind the barn.
-Green (Smooth) grass snake. I caught one years ago at my dad's hunting-club land nearby. Bright grass-green, awesome snake; I kept him for awhile as a pet. This was back some years and i have never seen one around our house or anywhere else.
-brown snake; seen at Tifft preserve. I saw..
-milk snake, there also.

Nearby but I have never personally seen: there are Eastern diamondbacks sighted at Allegny State Park, not terribly far away. There are more types also.

I have only found
Garters
Ring neck
black rat
bull snakes
but there is a place about 1/2 hour west that they have found milk snakes before

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Originally Posted by wolfy-hound

Eastern Diamondback
Moccasin
ratsnakes/cornsnakes(red ones and yellow ones)
black racers
green snakes
grass snakes(legless lizards??)
indigo
coral
pygmy rattlers
Florida

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They are actually commonly called glass lizards

plenty of garters and ribbon snakes. I have seen quite a few water moccasins along the Mississippi River and actually caught a baby one a few days ago.

I live in upstate NY and have caught...

garter snakes
watersnakes
black rat snakes
eastern milksnakes
redbelly snakes

Garter snakes so far. Here are two me and my brother caught yesterday.
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Shot with KODAK V530 ZOOM DIGITAL CAMERA .

I have only ever found garters, but supposedly rubber boas live around my area so that would be cool to go on a trip sometime and find one.

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North Florida,


I've personally seen
Garter snakes
Black racers
Southern Ringnecks
Eastern Rattlesnake
Diamondback Rattler
Pygmy rattler
Yellow Rat snake
Coral snake (it was a pretty big one, about 18'' long, just down the road!)
Hognose
Some others I didn't get close enough to positively identify


And I've been told where there are lots of watersnakes that sun themselves, near a spring-fed river about an hour from here, and I'm going back later this week to see if I can find them.

oooooohhh well here goes...

checkered garters
ribbon snakes
eastern ringnecks
black rats
various water snakes
northern copperheads
timbers...both dark and yellow phase
some black and red thing i have no idea...
eastern hognose
eastern milks

I live in lake havasu arizona so we got a ton of rattlers. Diamondbacks, Mojave Greens, Southernpacific Rattlers,3 Sidewinders, Arizona blacktail, Speckled, Ridgenose, Twin-spotted, Banded rock rattlers, prairie,hopi,and great basin rattlers. plus many rat snakes, bull snakes,and lots i think i missed :carrot:

OH, is that all the "hots" you have round.........HOLY CRAP

I live in Wisconsin so I've caught fairly decent size Western Fox snakes on the West side of the state and my fair share gartersnakes. When I used to live in Florida as a kid we would run into a fair share of Water Moccassins when fishing in the swamps. Also in Florida every other week it seemed someone would be pulling a released burmese out from under their house.

Louisiana(and some from nearby Mississippi)

Ringneck Snake
Rough Green Snake
Western Ribbon Snake
Speckled Kingsnake
Texas Rat Snake
Grey Rat Snake
Blackmask Racer
Southern Black Racer
Broad Banded Water Snake
Mud Snake
Copperhead
CottonMouth
Timber Rattlesnake

Probably others that I'm forgetting

John

eastern panhandle of WV

Black rat snakes
garter snakes


There are cooperheads on the mountain, but we aren't on the mountain and haven't seen any here yet.

Massachusetts.
theres 14 snake species here. out of those 14, i've seen
Eastern Garter Snake
Northern Water Snake
Eastern Ringneck Snake
Dekay's Brown Snake

i have yet to see:
Copperhead
Eastern Hognose snake
Black Ratsnake
Timber Rattler
smooth green snake (WHY???)
Black Racer
Red Bellied Snake
Eastern Wormsnake
Eastern Milksnake
Eastern Ribbon Snake


wow.. that's pathetic.. my area sucks for herping.

The only ones I have found are Garter Snakes and Bull Snakes.

I live in south-west WA.

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Originally Posted by natestench

The only ones I have found are Garter Snakes and Bull Snakes.

I live in south-west WA.

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I haven't got the slighest clue, what these snakes are. But when I moved here to Georgia from Illinois 2004, these I found in my backyard...

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southwest michigan... i've personally come across:

Eastern Garters (both normal and green)
Northern Ribbons
Norther Watersnakes
Blue Racers
Brown Snakes
Red Belly Snakes
Massasauga Rattlesnakes
*edit* and Eastern Hognoses.. i knew i was forgetting something.

and i think that's it! i have a ways to go i guess! one herp that is supposedly very common here that i've never ever seen is a five lined skink..?

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Originally Posted by Rapture

A very small brown/tan snake, seemed to be a burrowing species?

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Northern Brown Snake?

http://www.amazilia.net/images/Herps...Snake_7697.jpg

Rattlesnakes...

Rattlers and garters

The two main areas I go field herping at is either 8 minutes away and the other is 1 1/2 away. I usually alternate between the two spots and dont visit the one 8 minutes away any more than I do the one farther away.
At my closer spot I see some king snakes (rarely) but average 3 WDB's a night. More when the hatchlings are out.
My second location which is the further of the two I see mostly mojave rattlesnakes and some sidewinders. There is one other very secret place that I go to for sidewinders.

In Illinois we have tons of herps! Here are a few.
Mud Snakes
Eastern and Western Hognose Snakes
Black Rat Snakes
Gray Rat Snakes
Black Kingsnake
Speckled Kingsnake
Red Milk Snake
Eastern Milk Snake
Cotton Mouth
Copper Head
Timber Rattle Snake
Garter Snake
Ribbon Snake
Brown Snake
Red Belly Snake
Ring Neck Snake
Rough and Smooth Green Snakes
Blue Racers
Black Racers
Worm Snakes
Plains King Snake
Copperbelly Water Snake
DiamondBack Water Snake
Midland Water snake
Earth Snake
:D:cool::D

By the way those I listed are just the ones I have found.:D

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Originally Posted by kzooherpetoculturist

southwest michigan... i've personally come across:

Eastern Garters (both normal and green)
Northern Ribbons
Norther Watersnakes
Blue Racers
Brown Snakes
Red Belly Snakes
Massasauga Rattlesnakes
*edit* and Eastern Hognoses.. i knew i was forgetting something.

and i think that's it! i have a ways to go i guess! one herp that is supposedly very common here that i've never ever seen is a five lined skink..?

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I'm also from southern Michigan, do you have any tips for a beginning "enthusiast"? All I've ever personally seen is several garters and a water snake.

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I haven't got the slighest clue, what these snakes are. But when I moved here to Georgia from Illinois 2004, these I found in my backyard...

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v2...inbackyard.jpg
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Can't tell on the first one - might be a rat snake? The second one looks like a King snake.

Melissa the first one is a Eastern Coachwhip and the second is an Eastern Kingsnake.

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Melissa the first one is a Eastern Coachwhip and the second is an Eastern Kingsnake.

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Thanks. They are both cool to have around. I wish I had such luck!

in kansas we got

Garters
ribbons
Copperheads
Brown snakes
Ringnecks
Black Rats
Water snakes
timber rattle
diamond back
massasauga rattle
prarie king
speckeled king
mole king
bull snakes
eastern and red milks
coachwhips
rough greens
eastern glossy snake
great plains rat
black head snake
longnose snake
grams crayfish
Western and eastern hognose
and proally a few more...im just naming off the top of my head

My place is the suckiest place to find herps, and i have 12 acres of desert and all ive found are
bull snakes
western Diamondback Rattler
and a Common king

eastern garter
rat snake intergrades
prairie kingsnakes
copperheads
timber rattlesnakes
dekay's snake
copperbelly watersnakes
black king
black racer
black rat
eastern milksnake
eastern hognose snake
midland watersnake
queen snake
earth snake
copperheads
rough green snakes

probably some others.

I live in Sahuarita, AZ which is about 30 miles SW of Tucson. In the desert!!

Rattlers...more rattlers....oh yea...and a few more rattlers! Please don't ask me the type as I have no idea...don't get that close.

I have also seen some king snakes around. And though these are not snakes I have seen....

Trantulas
centipedes
Gila Monsters
scorpions
and of course coyotes and the other day we had a bobcat in the back yard. Good times.....

Phoenix, Arizona here. Well, I live over in Scottsdale, which I guess is a suburb of Phoenix (maybe?). Anywho, here are the snakes I've seen here:

Garter snakes (most likely it was a Common Garter.. I think??)
Rattlesnakes (the holy Western Diamondback:bow:)
Black Headed snake (my friend found a tiny little baby one at school and he gave it to me LOL.. he said, "Here Tiffany, I got you a new snake.")

southern ca

red diamond rattlers
southern pacific rattlers
sidewinders
gophers
whips
kings
rosy boas
red racers
pacific ringnecks
leafnose
patch nose
glossys
long nose
shovel nose
lyre snakes
garters

and more that escape my memory :p

Personally, I've only seen copperheads down at the lake I live by, and little garden snakes. I'm sure there's plenty of other ones around here, but that's all I've seen =]