ID this snake?

[TwoForFlinching]

I have a pack (4 or 5) of lined snakes in my back yard. Haven't seen a bug or spider on or around the porch for years.

 

[DRC458]

Looks like a bull snake aka rat snake aka chicken snake, eats chicken eggs, rats, mice stuff like that. Bull snakes are not venomous but can be arseholes and act and strike like a rattler, no worries unless its close to the house or trying to get inside, if on the country and have chickens I would relocate it to out in a pasture, if no chickens put it in a barn your mouse issues will go away.

She's in town ... in Edmond. It was between her house and the neighbor's. I guess she hasn't seen it again, and thinks it migrated into the neighbor's yard.

 

[Garrett]

Dekays Brown...they`re harmless.

 

[CorpsVet]

It's a rattle headed copper moccasin

 

[DRC458]

It's a rattle headed copper moccasin

Just as I thought!

 

[dennishoddy]

Fun fact... Head shapes aren't an indicator of danger. In Oklahoma, eyes are an indicator. Elliptical pupils are the giveaway, like cat eyes, but that only applies to Oklahoma native snakes.

More than likely, this little critter is an average run of the mills nope rope. Rat snake or patterned glossy. While I'm not a fan of killing beneficial snakes, if you can't ID it positively, time to bust out the hoe.

Coral snakes in Okla that are venomous do not have elliptical eyes, they have round pupils like non-venomous.. All the rest of the venomous snakes have elliptical.

 

[TwoForFlinching]

Coral snakes in Okla that are venomous do not have elliptical eyes, they have round pupils like non-venomous.. All the rest of the venomous snakes have elliptical.

Coral snakes aren't native to Oklahoma. Scarlet snakes are.

 

[dennishoddy]

We have coral snakes in SE Oklahoma. They are actually the Texas coral snake, but they are in parts of Ok along the Red River.

"North Texas has the same venomous snakes as Oklahoma with one addition, the Texas coral snake, which also might be rarely found near the Red River in extreme southern Oklahoma. The coral snake is not a pit viper- it is a member of the cobra family, Elapidae. It is a relatively slender snake with black and red bands separated by yellow bands and a black nose. In similarly colored non-venomous snakes, the red and yellow bands are separated by black bands or they lack a black nose."

https://www.noble.org/news/publicat...2008/june/learn-to-recognize-venomous-snakes/

 

[ignerntbend]

Coral snakes in Okla that are venomous do not have elliptical eyes, they have round pupils like non-venomous.. All the rest of the venomous snakes have elliptical.

Coral snakes are also very passive snakes. They have tiny jaws which makes it very difficult to bite a human. They hardly ever kill anybody. I've killed more of them than they've killed of me. They're good on pizza.

 

[Snattlerake]

They're all RATTLESNAKES to me.

I take umbrage to that remark sir.