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warning1
10-29-12, 10:19 PM
Hell i found a baby snake in my front yard tonight and am having a little problem identifying it. any help will do. and thanks in advance.

Oh and if it helps i live in El Cajon Ca, east of San Diego

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KORBIN5895
10-30-12, 02:10 AM
Looks Cornish to me.
iBaman
10-30-12, 03:03 AM
I see a ratsnake....
StudentoReptile
10-30-12, 05:50 AM
Great Plains ratsnake would be my guess, given the area.
rmfsnakes32
10-30-12, 07:01 AM
I see a rattle snake be careful
Sorraia
10-30-12, 10:24 AM
Do you have any additional pictures? We do not actually get rat snakes or corn snakes, so it is unlikely to be either of those. Its head is not triangular enough to be a baby rattlesnake.

In my professional opinion (I'm a field biologist! :) ), it looks like a juvenile lyre snake.
juvenile lyre snake - Google Search (http://www.google.com/search?num=10&hl=en&site=imghp&tbm=isch&source=hp&biw=1024&bih=677&q=juvenile+lyre+snake&oq=juvenile+lyre+snake&gs_l=img.3...704.2969.0.3046.19.11.0.8.2.0.85.745. 11.11.0...0.0...1ac.1.O9H9TPvimzo)
(hope that link works!)

Here's another link:
Trimorphodon lyrophanes - Baja California Lyresnake (http://www.californiaherps.com/snakes/pages/t.lyrophanes.html)

BTW - I live and work about 80-100 miles north of you. :) Hi neighbor!
BarelyBreathing
10-30-12, 11:02 AM
I see a rattle snake be careful

That is 110% NOT a rattlesnake.
bladeblaster
10-30-12, 02:59 PM
Do you have any additional pictures? We do not actually get rat snakes or corn snakes, so it is unlikely to be either of those. Its head is not triangular enough to be a baby rattlesnake.

In my professional opinion (I'm a field biologist! :) ), it looks like a juvenile lyre snake.
juvenile lyre snake - Google Search (http://www.google.com/search?num=10&hl=en&site=imghp&tbm=isch&source=hp&biw=1024&bih=677&q=juvenile+lyre+snake&oq=juvenile+lyre+snake&gs_l=img.3...704.2969.0.3046.19.11.0.8.2.0.85.745. 11.11.0...0.0...1ac.1.O9H9TPvimzo)
(hope that link works!)

Here's another link:
Trimorphodon lyrophanes - Baja California Lyresnake (http://www.californiaherps.com/snakes/pages/t.lyrophanes.html)

BTW - I live and work about 80-100 miles north of you. :) Hi neighbor!

I would concur