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Here's one of many great websites to help you become more confident identifying copperheads vs other non-venomous snakes. It also has a really, really good quiz showing pictures of copperheads and other snakes.
Great info. The copperhead is the only snake with the trademark "hour glass"shaped markings across the back. It makes them easy to identify along with the copper colored head.
Now....maybe someone can figure out how to enlarge that snake so it can be properly identified
Copperheads have been out in full force in my neighborhood lately. Just saw a big one tonight on the road while walking my dogs. Fortunately, the homeowner was walking to his mailbox at the time, so I alerted him to it and he killed it with a shovel.
If I see a snake on the road in the day time, it is usually a black snake or gray/brown snake. However, if I see a snake on the road in the late evening/night, it is almost always a copperhead. I guess they just like the dark. Not very cool though when you are in the routine of walking your dogs at night.
I occasionally hear that some neighbor or another killed a copperhead, or that someone saw a copperhead. In the four years we've been here (oops - I'm outside the Triangle), I've never seen a copperhead, though I spend time outdoors in pasture, yard, and woods. I've seen corn snakes, black rat snakes, black racers, garter snakes, green snakes, and other snakes. Everyone else sees copperheads. (Once the copperhead was actually a rope.)
My conclusion:Toot's links would be very helpful to my neighbors.
Not the greatest photo, but I really do not think that is a poisonous snake. Wrong color for a copperhead - I have seen many - they have brown, bronze, copper, burnt red colors to it, and of course a rattler has a rattler. Not sure what it is but 99 percent sure it is not poisonous
Yes, normally Copperheads are going to be found in old piles off wood/leaves that you have left through a winter b/c its a great place for them to wait out the winter, as well as hunt mice. While their bite is poisonous, you have to either be a very small child, or just ignore it, in order for the venom to kill you.
I know every year my dad comes to a pile brush he has neglected, he usually just rakes everything away from it, then sets fire to it. One year, our neighbors had this giant pile of wood they hadn't moved in 3 years... it was leftover wood from Hurricane Fran. They decided to move it one summer day. Next thing we know, we just start hearing shotgun blasts... turns out an entire den of copperheads was in there... something like 15 snakes or so.
If you live near water, Cottonmouths are always a problem... and they are aggressive. If you come across one, slowly back away... do not try to scare it off because they will stand their ground and sometimes chase you. Happened to me once at moore's creek... scared the ever living **** out of me too.
Many snakes are nocturnal, including copperheads. A friend of mine stepped on one a couple of nights ago, luckily not getting bit. He took his dog out, and stepped on it with flip flops on. Went back with a hoe and killed it. He got lucky. And yes, snakes, especially copperheads live brush piles, firewood stacks, and rocks. My next door neighbor has killed a couple of copperheads this summer, in a rockpile in his backyard. I've been lucky, and haven't seen a copperhead in many years.
My Snake-Of-What-Kind of meters needle is barely moving when I scan the probe over the picture. Bit to small to register I suppose and being the snake did not move when lifted my one of a kind Snake-Of-What-Kind of meter is worthless....bummer! I 'shed' some 'skin' to buy this too and the seller did not appear in anyway to be a 'Snake oil' salesman either! So, sorry I could not be of any help in identifying this snake-in-a-driveway variety reptile!
I do have to admit I am much better at catching the dead variety Snake-in-the Driveway varieties anyway! So I shall just 'slither' back in this Forum for the next passing snake picture to try my Snake-Of-What-Kind Meter! May the tongue of the forked one be with you!
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