WARNING! This is not a professional website! I am NOT an expert. Do NOT believe everything on this site.

Last Updated: 9/22/07

I will be moving the snake information to this page. For now, you can read about snakes on these pages.

Pond Animals
Chicken Predators

This page may eventually contain the following: some snake species information, snake photos, dealing with snakes at ponds, snakes and chickens, snake links, and so on.

Chuck sent these photos of a snake that he found in his pond filter on 9/7/06. He thought maybe it was a copperhead, and I was not sure. The Maryland DNR told him that it is a Northern watersnake. While they are not venomous, they are aggressive.
Northern watersnake
Northern watersnake

Candy sent this photos of a water snake in her pond on 5/30/07. I am not sure which species it is. It might be a Southern water snake or Nerodia fasciata or maybe a brown water snake or Northern water snake. They all look so similar! Enature lists 11 water snake species in the US here. There is also a neat spider in the photo. I was told that it is a fishing spider, the six spotted Dolomedes triton.
Water snake

On 8/12/07, my mother brought a baby 7" garter snake to me that she had found on the road. I did not see any injuries at first. Since I had just mowed the lawn, I must have hit it with the mower. I did not see him/her. I swerve to avoid bees so I would have avoided him. I was upset.
Baby garter snake - top view
Baby garter snake - bottom view
Baby garter snake - head close-up; you can see the deadly injury an inch down or so on the body.

Jon sent this photo on 8/17/07 of a maritime garter snake in Western Maine.
Maritime garter snake

I took this photo at the National Zoo on 9/14/07:
Copperhead snake