Playing in the rain...

[daniel1983]

We finally got some good rain today, so I decided to take a ride out near the swamp. Best pictures this season!!!! I was expecting to see some turtles, but found this nice ratsnake instead. Not bad for only about 20 minutes of riding.

I love when they pose for pictures


Head shot


Alot of the times I find snakes 'tranced out' on the road. No movement, no tongue action, nothing.


Crawling across rocks must feel awkward. I see alot of snakes move across rocks with these 'tight' curls. Nothing like when they shoot through grass. This was a size reference shot for myself.....those are 40" tongs, so I say around 46" or so.

[llovelace]

Thanks for sharing

[wilomn]

That looks sort of like a black rat snake.

Ben, yo Ben, is that a black rat snake?

Does anyone know if that's a black rat snake?

The world is waiting to know, if that's a black rat snake.

That was a cool pose. Sometimes, read as always, I wish I lived outside the city.

Neat find.

[Patrick Long]

Looks so crazy all kinked up like that on the road.

[DutchHerp]

E. o. lindheimeri?

I have the same tongs

[wilomn]

Looks so crazy all kinked up like that on the road.

It's weird. If you look really close you'll see that at every spot the body kinks, there's a pebble that the body is pushing against.

It's even weirder on smoother roads. They inch along resembling centipedes that have no legs. It ripples.

Perhaps it's a Texas Rat with all that pink.

Where is Ben?

[daniel1983]

Does anyone know if that's a black rat snake?

Texas rat snake No black ratsnakes in southeastern LA to my knowledge.

[DutchHerp]

Called it!

[dc4teg]

so I decided to take a ride out near the swamp.

took a ride out to the swamp eh didn't have to drive to far in Louisiana

[daniel1983]

took a ride out to the swamp eh didn't have to drive to far in Louisiana

...about 2 miles up the road