Name that Snake!

[Anonymous]

<p>With the drought being as severe as it has been here in Southern New Jersey, my pond which has only dried up 3 times in almost 30 years, with two of the three times being last year and this year, I get visitors looking for a meal, since it is the only moisture around (the mud that is) and right before dusk this evening I got to photograph in poor lighting this snake looking for a meal in the empty wasteland of my dried up pond! I know what type it is, does anybody else? One hint, it is a very good and noble snake, it often eats water snakes.[Photos taken with Nikon 775]...Don in South Jersey
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[Anonymous]

Sound like Horshack? It is a King Snake. <IMG SRC="/forums/images/smile.gif" BORDER=0 ALT=""> Big, aggressive, yet harmless -- unlike the two copperheads that found their way into my BATHROOM a few weeks ago!!

 

[Anonymous]

I only wish I had spotted it earlier in the evening in order to get better lighting. It is usually fairly dark by the pond anyway and the digital almost always wants to use the flash down there. Besides, the snake did not want to cooperate either. Don