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[*] posted on 10-13-2013 at 11:29 AM
Snake ID please


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






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[*] posted on 10-13-2013 at 11:40 AM


looks like a gopher snake. Keep it around. It will get your ratones and topos.
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[*] posted on 10-13-2013 at 11:42 AM


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



That was my assessment as well.




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[*] posted on 10-13-2013 at 11:43 AM


http://www.desertusa.com/reptiles/gopher-snake.html
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[*] posted on 10-13-2013 at 11:44 AM


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




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[*] posted on 10-13-2013 at 11:48 AM


I don`t think it is a gopher snake. Looks like some kind of "boa".
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[*] posted on 10-13-2013 at 11:48 AM


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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:




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[*] posted on 10-13-2013 at 12:00 PM
Gopher snake


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.



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[*] posted on 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!





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[*] posted on 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
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[*] posted on 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...



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[*] posted on 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.




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[*] posted on 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.
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[*] posted on 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.
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[*] posted on 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




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[*] posted on 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.




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[*] posted on 10-13-2013 at 01:57 PM


Gracias Judy !




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[*] posted on 10-13-2013 at 04:17 PM


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


Can I borrow it for a few days Blanca?




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[*] posted on 10-13-2013 at 06:11 PM


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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:




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