Snake ID help

[bmorgan]

I find these frequently in my yard
https://picasaweb.google.com/lh/photo/kHj4Z9EdbXOaapYoggsv9dMTjNZETYmyPJy0liipFm0?feat=d irectlink
Central Alabama
creek very close by
have seen copperhead, canebrake, rat and cottonmouth

[infernalis]

Picassa does not allow links.

I attached a copy of your picture for you.

[bmorgan]

This is the url

https://picasaweb.google.com/lh/photo/kHj4Z9EdbXOaapYoggsv9dMTjNZETYmyPJy0liipFm0?feat=d irectlink

Not being snarky, but this has worked for me on several other forums.

[bmorgan]

Picasa has an "Image only (no link)" option
https://lh4.googleusercontent.com/-P8IvxioYP4Y/UkxZjLvPySI/AAAAAAAADOQ/sdq14pod7qw/s800/Baby%2520snake.jpg

[leper65]

Looks like maybe a Pine Woods Snake (Rhadinaea flavilata). How large is it? The Pine Woods Snake only gets to 12" long. Hard to tell from that pic though...

[BoaBoy91]

worm snake???

[bmorgan]

It does look like both of those. Every one I've seen (a dozen or so) has been slithering through my bermuda. This thing is tiny, maybe 6 inches and I've yet to see one bigger. I had searched quite a bit for a similar image and the closest I'd found before is in the link below (2nd image). The poster claims it is a baby copperhead, which are very common around here. Any chance of that?

Can't seem to get any url to work here, so cut and paste

aussiepythons.com/forum/australian-snakes-37/elapid-picts-84193/page/202#post2200327

[bmorgan]

While my insomnia is raging:

baby #2
https://lh4.googleusercontent.com/-8sWh5Wi_hVo/Uk0TrJ1OyPI/AAAAAAAADPg/vDfHnksBR6M/s800/BabySnake2.jpg


baby #3
https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/--V6nYqaxgJQ/Uk0Tvo4TfxI/AAAAAAAADPg/2OWyqPTmMYY/s800/BabySnake3.jpg

[StudentoReptile]

The last two are Dekay's brown snakes. My guess for the first pic is an earth snake (Virginia sp).

I suggest getting a copy of Robert Mount's The Reptiles & Amphibians of Alabama. Has a nice dichotomous key with it!

[bmorgan]

Thanks, that book is on the way.

Baby #2 above looks entirely different to me (sorry my father-in-law removed it's head before I arrived). If they vary that much, this will be tough going.

[infernalis]

I thought that snake looked headless.

I hope you attempt to educate the man, Storeria dekayi are the worlds most gentle, most harmless snake.

I shipped four of them to a kindergarten teacher once for classroom "pets" because they don't even strike when the little tots tap on the glass.

[bmorgan]

He's over 70 and everyone he grew up with believes 'the only good snake is a dead one'. I have mentioned that I don't kill them and feel that is all I should say, but I hear you.