Squished Snake ID (Icky pic, Guts)

[Diggin It]

I think I know what this is and I don't like them being anywhere near me. Confused as to what happened though. It wasn't there the first time I walked past this spot, but it was when I came back about a half hour later. I'm guessing it got dun runned over by a car, but we have hawks, falcons and other predator birds, so who knows. It's the mice though .... where did they come from? Snakes eat mice, but they don't drag them around, do they?

 

[tjkubota93]

Copperhead

 

[tjkubota93]

I know this is a copperhead, yours looks close

 

[2LaneCruzer]

I think I know what this is and I don't like them being anywhere near me. Confused as to what happened though. It wasn't there the first time I walked past this spot, but it was when I came back about a half hour later. I'm guessing it got dun runned over by a car, but we have hawks, falcons and other predator birds, so who knows. It's the mice though .... where did they come from? Snakes eat mice, but they don't drag them around, do they?

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Where's Sherlock Holmes when you need him? The mice look to be a somewhat older kill than the snake; perhaps he was checking out the road kill and got a little bit careless. And yes, the snake looks to be a Copperhead. I always look for the dumb bell shaped markings and the copper head.

 

[jaxs]

Where's Sherlock Holmes when you need him? The mice look to be a somewhat older kill than the snake; perhaps he was checking out the road kill and got a little bit careless. And yes, the snake looks to be a Copperhead. I always look for the dumb bell shaped markings and the copper head.

Very good Cruzer,common sense win's every time.:drink:

 

[AWSubie]

Yes. Copperhead. There is a very similar looking species of harmless water snake. But on the water snake the “dumbbell” pattern is reversed where the wide part of the dumbbell is on the back of the snake and the narrow part on the side.

 

[tjkubota93]

Where's Sherlock Holmes when you need him? The mice look to be a somewhat older kill than the snake; perhaps he was checking out the road kill and got a little bit careless. And yes, the snake looks to be a Copperhead. I always look for the dumb bell shaped markings and the copper head.

I look at the shape of the markings. Cant tell colors that good.

Diamond shaped head is poisonous.

On a stoplight, red is on the top or the left.

 

[atsah]

Southern Copperhead.. The northern versions I have seen in MA were a little darker.. Probably to collect more heat from the sun..

 

[bunyip]

Our copperheads look nothing like that, light brown, small scales and a small copper patch between the eyes, long and thin, yours looks more like a python or adder/viper.

 

[caver]

bunyip, From what I just read they are not closely related to your Copperheads in Australia. The US species is Agkistrodon contortrix