Chicken snake
Jun 14, 2022 08:45:32 #
Our forecast for yesterday was an expected near 100 degrees so I thought I would surely see a cottonmouth early morning at the conservation area but I was wrong. On my way home about two blocks from my house I saw this snake stretched out on the street. Living in a small town with little traffic allows one to stop without blocking traffic. Google Lens ID'd this as a gray rat snake also known as a chicken snake. Once as a child my mother asked me to go to our hen house to gather eggs and being very short I had to stand on my toes to see inside the nests. At this one nest I came face to face with a chicken snake over five feet long which really scared me so I ran back to our house to tell my brother and he killed it. We had a picture for years of my brother holding that snake but I don't know what happened to it. I didn't kill this one nor do I kill any snakes.
Jun 14, 2022 08:49:48 #
JRiepe wrote:
Our forecast for yesterday was an expected near 10... (show quote)
Nice specimen, nice shotJun 14, 2022 09:15:25 #
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Jun 14, 2022 09:54:45 #
Very nice! Looks healthy...many snakes will eat eggs...part of their balanced diet!! 
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Here in Texas we call them Texas Rat Snake, our friends. They take care of the mice and obviously rats.
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Jun 14, 2022 15:10:25 #
kpmac wrote:
Nice image, Jerry. I hate snakes.
Thanks Ken. Many people have ophidiophobia.
Jun 14, 2022 15:11:30 #
jederick wrote:
Very nice! Looks healthy...many snakes will eat eggs...part of their balanced diet!!
Thanks Jederick. Yes, chicken snakes will eat eggs.
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Jun 14, 2022 15:13:46 #
tramsey wrote:
Here in Texas we call them Texas Rat Snake, our friends. They take care of the mice and obviously rats.
I think snakes in general have an undeserved bad reputation.
Jun 14, 2022 15:18:39 #
Retired CPO wrote:
Good photo! Looks like a pretty hefty snake!
Thanks Chief. It wasn't a large snake. If anyone in this town other than me had been in my place I'm quite sure they would have driven over it with the intent to kill and possibly someone came along after me and did just that but I hope not.
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