Maggie’s Motivational Pic Thread v2.0 - - New Rules - See Post #1

Corn snakes and rat snakes are closely related. Young corn snakes typically have at least a little orange/red coloring. All young rat snakes (gray, black, yellow, etc) look similar and change as they mature.
Well since many sources call the corn snake a red rat snake, which it is, I consider them both to be equal as welcome in my yard.
 
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I'm playing it safe and calling it a copperhead. Probably wrong, but I'm safe.
Copperheads have a wide arrow shaped head because they are venomous, this doesn’t. Pretty much the only venomous exception to that rule is a coral snake in North America.


Oh and brown water snakes have a wide head, but no venom. They seem like a laidback snake I stepped on or next to 13 that I know of (fishing daily over a few years and the place was swampy and packed with them) and not one struck at me they just went in the water. Stepping on a snake in flip flops while watching a lure instead of your feet is a bad feeling, saw plenty of moccasins out there too but luckily only had run ins with brown water snakes.

Saw a black and white mottled looking king snake same time period...struck at me walking by and played dead lol
 
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Copperheads have a wide arrow shaped head because they are venomous, this doesn’t. Pretty much the only venomous exception to that rule is a coral snake in North America.


Oh and brown water snakes have a wide head, but no venom. They seem like a laidback snake I stepped on or next to 13 that I know of (fishing daily over a few years and the place was swampy and packed with them) and not one struck at me they just went in the water. Stepping on a snake in flip flops while watching a lure instead of your feet is a bad feeling, saw plenty of moccasins out there too but luckily only had run ins with brown water snakes.

Saw a black and white mottled looking king snake same time period...struck at me walking by and played dead lol
Snake's head looks distorted, as if it swallowed something small.
 
I'm playing it safe and calling it a copperhead. Probably wrong, but I'm safe.
As was already pointed out, a copperhead has a much more triangular shaped head. Furthermore, the diameter of a copperheads body with relation to its length is a lot greater. That means that a copperhead as long as that corn snake is would be at least 2” diameter at center, if not more.

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