Yep....a cottonmouth They are beautiful when they are young. I would have gotten a 'cotton' mouth picture for everyone, but two trucks came down the road when I was taking the last picture... so I had to scury to move this guy to safety I set him on the shoulder of the road....then moved my truck out the center of the road(it was blocking any oncoming trucks from running me over)....and when I went back to look for it...it had moved on