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Never seen one like that; looks like it might be melanistic or some other aberrant pattern. Very cool.
Bummer! Such a gorgeous animal.
Definitely a diamondback water snake, Nerodia rhombifer. And chunky!
It's got to be some species of gartersnake, but I'm not familiar with the ones up there.
I'm a herpetology grad student here in Jonesboro, and there are lots of rice fields south of here where the runoff ditches are, apparently, filled with these. We had an empty aquarium from hellbender research in our lab so we decided to take one back for display/education, and I couldn't get a good photo of one in the field.
That's a brown anole, Anolis sagrei.
