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Snake ID please

BajaBlanca - 10-13-2013 at 11:29 AM

So, i have been gardening all morning and this snake popped out of a pot of sand I emptied.....what kind is it?

BajaBlanca - 10-13-2013 at 11:31 AM

rts551 - 10-13-2013 at 11:40 AM

looks like a gopher snake. Keep it around. It will get your ratones and topos.

DENNIS - 10-13-2013 at 11:42 AM

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Originally posted by rts551
looks like a gopher snake. Keep it around. It will get your ratones and topos.



That was my assessment as well.

rts551 - 10-13-2013 at 11:43 AM

http://www.desertusa.com/reptiles/gopher-snake.html

BajaBlanca - 10-13-2013 at 11:44 AM

Thanks! It is somewhere in the garden still! It is a very beautiful snake.

BornFisher - 10-13-2013 at 11:48 AM

I don`t think it is a gopher snake. Looks like some kind of "boa".

DENNIS - 10-13-2013 at 11:48 AM

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Originally posted by BajaBlanca
Thanks! It is somewhere in the garden still! It is a very beautiful snake.


Go get it and wrap it around Les' beer bottle. :lol:

Gopher snake

capitolkat - 10-13-2013 at 12:00 PM

it seems to have the banding and color of the example of Gopher snake found on p 79 of Ron Mcpeak's Amphibians and Reptiles of Baja. probably a juvenile as they can grow up to 30-60 inches.

BajaBlanca - 10-13-2013 at 12:10 PM

It had a black band around the tip of the head...made it look like zorro. It was thin and moved fairly quickly. I do hope it eats ALL the gophers (((:

Dennis .... You are very funny!

churro - 10-13-2013 at 12:21 PM

I would put my money on a gopher snake.... I have seen hundreds of them here where I live

David K - 10-13-2013 at 12:27 PM

The Zorro hint really helped Blanca... My bet is the Peninsular Glossy Snake... Page 67 of McPeak's book...



Everyone should get this!:



[Edited on 10-13-2013 by David K]

BajaBlanca - 10-13-2013 at 12:36 PM

I want that book. baja Judy, do you have it? Or maybe Juanita in S Ignacio. Altho this is the very first snake I have ever seen in all my gardening days.

rts551 - 10-13-2013 at 12:41 PM

They are all over Blanca. Last month, a young rat snake was i in my lemon tree eating the flys.

BornFisher - 10-13-2013 at 12:59 PM

Plus the glossy snake is a good burrower and it was apparently down in the dirt. And it has those little spots on its side. So................ Peninsular glossy snake.

Hook - 10-13-2013 at 01:02 PM

Here is a decent website that covers many snakes of the Sonoran Desert and many of these can be found on the Peninsula. Not just snakes of AZ, as the site name applies.

http://www.reptilesofaz.org/snakes.html

bajajudy - 10-13-2013 at 01:49 PM

Blanca
Yes we have it and I believe Juanita does too.
Claudia in La tienda in Mulege also has it.

BajaBlanca - 10-13-2013 at 01:57 PM

Gracias Judy !

durrelllrobert - 10-13-2013 at 04:17 PM

Quote:
Originally posted by rts551
looks like a gopher snake. Keep it around. It will get your ratones and topos.


Can I borrow it for a few days Blanca?

David K - 10-13-2013 at 06:11 PM

Quote:
Originally posted by Hook
Here is a decent website that covers many snakes of the Sonoran Desert and many of these can be found on the Peninsula. Not just snakes of AZ, as the site name applies.

http://www.reptilesofaz.org/snakes.html


Nice site! :light:

bajajudy - 10-13-2013 at 06:54 PM

Hook
Thanks for that site, too
BUT when I clicked on the skin(which is really clever) and went to the pix, I flinched. They were too real. In snake identification, that is terrific. For people who don't really like snakes, it's a "ok enough of that"!

mulegemichael - 10-13-2013 at 07:48 PM

most definately a gopher snake...harmless to us humans; deadly to gophers.....the only bad thing is we don't have any stinkin' gophers!....how do these guys down here make a living???....rats?....mice?...small people?...whaaa?.

bajabuddha - 10-13-2013 at 10:23 PM

............. :no: too bad they don't eat trolls............ ;)

David K - 10-14-2013 at 01:03 AM

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Originally posted by mulegemichael
most definately a gopher snake...harmless to us humans; deadly to gophers.....the only bad thing is we don't have any stinkin' gophers!....how do these guys down here make a living???....rats?....mice?...small people?...whaaa?.


You don't think it looks like a Glossy Snake? Is the Zorro mask on a Gopher Snake?

Peninsular Glossy Snake Photo:


Blanca's Photo:


[Edited on 10-15-2013 by David K]

gringorio - 10-14-2013 at 10:05 PM

gopher snake, agreed. known in my parts as a bullsnake. good to have around ...

BajaBlanca - 10-15-2013 at 07:42 AM

A friend from Texas, who claims to know snakes very well, says it is NOT a glossy cause the glossies look like they have saran wrap around their bodies. This one was a gopher snake and we have so many gophers, I am glad this one is here in the garden.

I scared one of our guests off when I told them about the snake.....I for got most people really don't appreciate the.


Oooops. :o:o