It's a brown snake - Storeria dekayi. Let me guess - not very big at all, and flattens out its head when its frightened (you may not have witnessed this behavior yet).

Brown snakes & their subspecies are extremely common throughout the US. Their main diet consists of earthworms & slugs. When I lived in TX I kept one & fed it red wigglers & it did fine. Cute little snakes.



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