What kind of a snake is this?

[hallenhe]

I envy you your iguanas, armadillos, and even anoles and wild boars (I know anoles are common as dirt, but not in Michigan!). Still, we don't do too badly, living in the city, two blocks from campus:
Raccoon
Opossum
Woodchuck
Coyote (!) - only once, passing through, but I've seen them on campus a block away.
Rabbit
Four species of squirrel
About 15-20 species of birds: songbirds, woodpeckers (3 spp.), corvids, hummers in the summer
On the MSU campus, I've seen:
Mink
Red fox
Muskrat
Whitetail deer
Softshell turtle
Crawdads
Evidence of a beaver, but have not yet seen the beaver in the flesh

 

[CloudsMystique]

I live in Florida, too, and have a lot of the same wildlife. I don't have that much by my house because I live in the city, but this is what I've SEEN on the trails where I ride my horse:

anoles
snakes (black racers and cottonmouths)
frogs
toads
gopher tortoises
turtles
armadillos
raccoons
foxes
coyotes
opossums
squirrels
rabbits
deer
hares
boars
bobcats
cranes
LOTS of other birds

We also have panthers, but I haven't seen one. I wish we had iguanas, but I live too far north. My dad's family lives in Davie, and there are iguanas EVERYWHERE.

 

[Syn]

I've only seen random lizards, random snakes, a roadrunner on the rare occasion, coyotes.. not too much.

 

[Lizardlover]

Wait a minute, you have wild iguanas?! thats so sick!

Florida is FULL of iguanas, some of them become so tame they will eat greens from you. I have 3 that live in my yard and eat the baby coconuts that fall to the ground.

 

[jojackson]

The sad part about having all these animals around, we have a pool out back and with a wood privacy fence but some how the animals still get in and every once in awhile we'll find a dead one in the pool. Once they get in most of them can't get out. Sometimes we are able to pull them out before it's too late but sometime when we get up in the morning something has drown over night.

I think I advised somebody here before to ensure a strong thick knotted rope anchored to something permanent, or similar means for wildlife to escape the pool. Its commonly done here for koalas. Wildlife drowning in your pool is a tradgic waste of life.
Perhaps something of a raft that floats could be left in the pool aswell?

 

[Pure]

Syn; You don't eat them!

Jann, I thought you were a native? A true Southerner will eat anything that had a heartbeat.

I have squirrel BQs all the time.

They taste best with red BBQ sauce, leave the yellow stuff for opossum.

 

[Chamgirl]

Jann, I thought you were a native? A true Southerner will eat anything that had a heartbeat.

I have squirrel BQs all the time.

They taste best with red BBQ sauce, leave the yellow stuff for opossum.

Not funny

 

[Pure]

Oh get over yourself.

Sorry if I offended you, but there is no difference between eating a fuzzy little animal or a cow. Killing is killing, and down here, least in my family, you eat what you kill.

But that really has little to do with my comment. I was joking about the stereotype involving Southerners eating EVERYTHING road kill stew being at the top of the joke list.

In all honesty I've eaten just about every form of creature in my surrounding woodlands, and I'll do it again. I don't own a gun but I do have a pellet gun with a sniper style scope on it that will take the head off of a squirrel at 150 ft.

And well since I'm on the subject, the UK presently is consuming more squirrel than any one. Saving a Squirrel By Eating a Squirrel

Back on topic, Jann that must be pretty neat to be able to observe this snake living in you shrubs. I have a long term resident skink that I love to watch behind my shop.

 

[jannb]

I think I advised somebody here before to ensure a strong thick knotted rope anchored to something permanent, or similar means for wildlife to escape the pool. Its commonly done here for koalas. Wildlife drowning in your pool is a tradgic waste of life.
Perhaps something of a raft that floats could be left in the pool aswell?

Thanks Jo. Something else for the hubby to do this weekend.

 

[CHAMaDdIcT]

i say Everglades Racer too

 

[prettykttkat]

I'm so jealous! I was born in FL and long to return but the hubby says no

I think the snake is a black racer too. Very cute!