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Old 11-26-2008, 01:41 PM
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Thanks to everyone for your responses. I can’t provide much more information on the description than was shown in the pictures, although the snake did not appear to be black. (I’d make a poor witness to an accident scene).

I guess we’ll never really know what it was, but I appreciate the web-links provided and have checked them all. I did forget to mention that we live next to a lot that backs onto a pond – so we are close to water.

I personally thought it might be a Florida Banded Watersnake, as shown below – but now I’m not so sure as the head looks wrong, as does the underbelly. The head looked more like the Cottonmouth – but who knows?

Maybe I’ll invest in a better camera for my next encounter.

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that looked awful close to it.. the other one looked a little darker, both of these resemble the Cotton Mouth.