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Commonly thought of as cold-blooded and aggressive, most of Ontario’s snakes are actually quite elegant and good-natured. The northern water snake (Nerodia sipedon) is a species of large, nonvenomous, common snake in the Colubridae family that is native to North America.
Muskrat houses and beaver lodges are good places to find water snakes, which like to hide among the sticks and plant stems. They live near lakes, ponds, marshes, rivers, and canals; just about anywhere there is freshwater.
Water snake spotting: August 2013. George Lake, Killarney Provincial Park, Killarney Ontario, Canada
Spotted on Aug 10, 2013
Submitted on Aug 22, 2013
3 Comments
Great snake! Please move this to the reptiles category, and add the scientific name since you know the ID, Nerodia sipedon. Thanks!
Thanks for such an in-depth description! Your pictures are great.
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This raffle ends on August 24th 2013, so get those tickets asap! You can get one raffle ticket for each of the sightings you have posted to our Killarney Park Mission, and you can get a maximum of three tickets a day.
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