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Coluber flagellum piceus
Snake crossing the boardwalk.
Scrub with some nearby ponds.
Ash Meadows National Wildlife Refuge, Armagosa, Nevada.
You're welcome. So if you agree you can edit the common name and scientific name fields to use the suggestion :-)
Thank-you, S Frazier! The page you linked too mentioned the tail looking like a braided whip, so I have now uploaded a second picture, this one showing the tail. Looks good to me!