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Offline bjrogg

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Snake ID?
« on: July 11, 2020, 10:16:29 am »
One of my buddies found this road kill snake and brought it to me. I never saw one like it. Almost reminds me of a Boa
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Re: Snake ID?
« Reply #1 on: July 11, 2020, 10:30:20 am »
PS I’m in Michigan
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Re: Snake ID?
« Reply #2 on: July 11, 2020, 11:15:35 am »
I didn’t take pictures, but during the skinning process I found what I believe were several eggs in different stages of development.
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Re: Snake ID?
« Reply #3 on: July 11, 2020, 11:18:13 am »
Ended up being just over 3 feet long
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Re: Snake ID?
« Reply #4 on: July 11, 2020, 12:15:09 pm »
Cool looking skin. Could be one of the water snakes. As fresh as the pattern looks it must have just shed it's old skin.
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Re: Snake ID?
« Reply #5 on: July 11, 2020, 12:29:52 pm »
I agree Pat. It looks very clean and bright. I had pet snakes before and when they shed they looked so shinny and new.

If it wasn’t a dead road kill I would have let it go had I spotted it. Since it was found as a road kill and brought to me by my buddy. I just couldn’t let it go to waste.

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« Reply #6 on: July 11, 2020, 12:49:21 pm »
That's what I call a corn snake.   I have used them on bows before.  They are cool looking skins.  They come in a grey/red pattern too.  I find them fairly often in my area.  They don't get much bigger than that.  They are smaller than black rat snakes.
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« Reply #7 on: July 11, 2020, 12:53:22 pm »
Here's one of the grey and red pattern.

http://www.primitivearcher.com/smf/index.php?topic=57085.0
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Re: Snake ID?
« Reply #8 on: July 11, 2020, 01:03:43 pm »
Thanks Clint. I’ve been looking online and it very similar to Michigan Rattler. I didn’t see any rattles on it but maybe I didn’t look hard enough. I have never seen one before and thought they were only up north, but while doing presentations people have told me they have seen them locally.

I’m not sure if it is legal to possess or not, but I couldn’t make myself leave it just go to waste

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Re: Snake ID?
« Reply #9 on: July 11, 2020, 01:17:17 pm »
I don’t see any rattles though. See sure is pretty.
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Re: Snake ID?
« Reply #10 on: July 11, 2020, 02:26:16 pm »
Looks like they come in assorted colors Clint. You might be right. Might be a corn snake.

Looks very similar to a Fox Snake to.
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« Reply #11 on: July 11, 2020, 02:39:36 pm »
Looking at the pic of the whole snake it looks like it has round pupils in it's eye, generally meaning a non-poisonous snake in the US.
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« Reply #12 on: July 11, 2020, 04:11:44 pm »
Quote from: Pat B on July 11, 2020, 02:39:36 pm
Looking at the pic of the whole snake it looks like it has round pupils in it's eye, generally meaning a non-poisonous snake in the US.


That’s what I was thinking to Pat
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« Reply #13 on: July 11, 2020, 04:46:39 pm »
Looks a lot like a eastern milk snake to. Really seems to fit this description the best of anything I’ve found so far and is a Michigan snake
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« Reply #14 on: July 12, 2020, 12:14:21 pm »
I believe it is an eastern hognosed snake.  They are a noticeably "fat" snake like that and have a habit of laying out on the roads in Michigan.  I thing both corn snake and milk snake are out since those snakes are proportionally skinnier, that is they tend toward "long and skinny" while hognosed snakes tend toward "short and fat".
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