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Nerodia sipedon
Brown with dark saddles on the back. Approximately 3.5 feet long.
Small river
Spotted on Aug 23, 2013
Submitted on Sep 13, 2013
25 Comments (1–25)
Thanks Sergio, Carol, Lauren and Reza! No Lauren she did not bite anyone. Another smaller one clipped a friend of mine whose hand you see holding her. It was moving and made about 2 cm slash, but because they have an anticoagulant in their saliva, it looks much worse than it really was.
Congratulations Lisa.
Congratulations! Be careful!
Congratulations Lisa! Great pictures. Did it bite you?
Congratulations !
Thanks Karen! And thanks to everyone else for your kind words! :-)
Congrats Lisa!
Congrats Lisa!
Congratulations, Lisa.
Congratulations Lisa. You are really an amazing herpetologist.
Awesome spotting, Lisa! Congratulations!
Congratulations Lisa for your SOTD
great spotting Lisa!!
Congratulations Lisa, your great series has been chosen as spotting of the day to kick off snake week!
The common water snake is a non-venomous North American snake that is often mistaken for the venomous cottonmouth, which it superficially resembles. The two species can be most easily distinguished by their eyes – the pupils of the cottonmouth are cat-like vertical slits, whereas those of the water snake are round.
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i just loved the first pic (close up)! marvelous!
Thanks everyone for the kind words!
Renee,
I am a herpetologist, so I work with snakes all the time. For this shot, I was about 4 inches away. Once the snake realized we were not going to harm her, she calmed down.
Awesome shot
Awesome !
Great photos...
This is the one who caused the blood. as you can see it calmed down after it realized we were not going to harm it.
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A smaller water snake caught my friend on the finger and basically slashed his finger open about 1/2 inch but they have an anticoagulent in the saliva that prevents clotting. So it looks much worse than it was in reality.
Awesome! What's with the blood?
How did you get a close up picture?
This one did not, but I did get bit by the one that bit they guy in the pic. It was much smaller too. :-)
Woah pretty fierce looking! It bit you?