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Opheodrys aestivus
Opheodrys aestivus, commonly known as the rough green snake, is a nonvenomous North American colubrid. It is sometimes called grass snake or green grass snake, but these names are more commonly applied to the smooth green snake. Have full permission to post this photo.
Spotted on Sep 19, 2012
Submitted on Sep 19, 2012
12 Comments
Your photo...
Congrats on what?
Amazing Photo! Congratulations Jake
awesome!!
Hi Jake, I have removed this spotting from the Snakes of the United States mission as you have added a date during Snake Week whereas this spotting was made on an unknown date prior to this event, & including it would risk invalidating the data which is being used for research purposes. As you did not make the spotting yourself, we also cannot say for sure the exact location this snake was seen. If you would like to earn the snake week patch, we would encourage you try & find a wild snake yourself & add that to the mission. Patches were designed as an incentive to get our members out of doors & reconnected with nature, not to share the work of others. I hope you understand.
Jake,
It is customary and proper to always credit the photographer...especially when she has given you permission. I would simply add in your notes:
Photo courtesy of Sharon Cardin.
Lisa
Hi Jake, I'm glad you have permission. It is essential that when we're posting photos that we didn't take, that we make it clear we have permission of the photographer. Here's my most recent post of a picture a friend took, with my notice of that in the Notes: http://www.projectnoah.org/spottings/140...
cool snake
Dear Ava, I did call the lady who took this picture and she gave me permission. I didn't know that I needed to post that in the notes.
Hi jakewade97. This beautiful snake shows up on a web page called Tennessee Watchable Wildlife and is attributed to someone else. Do you have permission to use this photo? If so you need to put that in the notes. If not, you need to remove it from Project Noah because you and PN could get in real trouble for copyright infringement. Thanks for understanding.
Interesting portrait
Darn near perfect. What a great photo.