Snake identification???

caryatid · #1 06/04/08, 02:43 PM

I live in New Mexico
I found a snake in my shed. It is probably about 18inches long, maybe as thick as a hotdog. It was yellowish/tan with an almost checkerboard pattern on it's back made of darker brown rectangles.

The head didn't look triangular, but it did get a little wider at the base.
I saw no rattles

When I got brave enough to go back out there with my camera, it was no where to be found. I watched it slither along the normal places that the mice have been seen.

Help? Anyone?

ksfarmer · #2 06/04/08, 03:26 PM

Try going to: http://www.enature.com/fieldguides/v...7&shapeID=1060

ErinP · #3 06/04/08, 03:34 PM

On the western prairies, a snake that looks very rattlesnake-like but isn't is a bull snake. (Better than that, they can mimic the rattle sound to really spook ya! lol)

They're a constrictor and can get absolutely enormous! My folks had one in a shed behind the house that was about 8 feet long when I saw him, wrapped along the rafters of the shed.

caryatid · #4 06/04/08, 11:34 PM

Thanks guys,

It has been identified as a bull snake.

But I still might make my husband pack up the shed before we move.
(Harmless or not, I don't do snakes)

MELOC · #5 06/05/08, 08:05 AM

there was a pale version of a rattlesnake shown on man vs.wild. it was a rare snake that bear grylls would not kill and eat. i thought maybe you had found one.