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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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looks like a gopher snake. Keep it around. It will get your ratones and topos.
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Quote: | 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.
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http://www.desertusa.com/reptiles/gopher-snake.html
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Thanks! It is somewhere in the garden still! It is a very beautiful snake.
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I don`t think it is a gopher snake. Looks like some kind of "boa".
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Quote: | 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.
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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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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
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Dennis .... You are very funny!
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I would put my money on a gopher snake.... I have seen hundreds of them here where I live
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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]
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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
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They are all over Blanca. Last month, a young rat snake was i in my lemon tree eating the flys.
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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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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
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http://www.reptilesofaz.org/snakes.html
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Blanca
Yes we have it and I believe Juanita does too.
Claudia in La tienda in Mulege also has it.
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Gracias Judy !
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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?
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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!
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