Snake (Fayetteville, King: eat, snakes, poisonous)

[AJEB]

I found a snake on my back patio and convinced myself it was a harmless corn snake. Now someone is telling me that it might be a copperhead. Anyone know? Here's a picture. (It was underneath my son's plastic pool.)

[NCyank]

It doesn't look like either to me.

Copperhead - North Carolina

Corn Snake - North Carolina

[NCyank]

Check out the markings on this brown snake. Could be a match and the description says they can be reddish in color.

Brown Snake - North Carolina

[AJEB]

I vote for the brown snake! Looks like a closer match than anything else I've seen! Thanks for your response. AJ

[NH2NC]

looks like the escaped Cobra from Fayetteville.

I hate snakes!

[robandkelly]

I don't think it is poisionus but don't go picking it up. It looks to me like a Eastern Garter Snake, but the coloring is a little off but the marking are the same, doing the job I did in the Army you get used to snakes, and am I to the point now that I hate to kill them but my wife goes crazy. Good luck take a rack and carry it off. Most of your non-poisionous snakes eat your poisionus ones, especially king snakes. But remember even if it is not poisionus it will still bite, but it is not likely to chase you.

[lamishra]

I vote Cobra too!

Seriously though, it's hard to tell without seeing the head, but my guess would be a Gartner snake. They're abundant around here and come in all different colors but with a similar pattern to the one in your picture.

Common Garter Snake

And they do bite, they're just non-venomous....but still....

[robandkelly]

I have found my share of Cobra's and Pit Vipers in Iraq, I assure you it is not a Cobra.

[lamishra]

Originally Posted by robandkelly

I have found my share of Cobra's and Pit Vipers in Iraq, I assure you it is not a Cobra.

LOL, it's a joke from a previous thread about a King Cobra supposedly on the loose in Fayettville!!!

[zoebrunn]

Um... anyone else out there that has NOT relocated to the area yet who finds it just a TAD BIT ODD and DISTURBING that they are VOTING ON WHICH POISONOUS SNAKE THIS COULD BE!!!!!!

AAAAAAAHHHHHH!!!!!!

Just kidding you.... It IS odd... but C'est La Vie!