# Id snake? (Copperhead?) **URL:** \ **Category:** Factual Questions\ **Created:** [May 28, 2014, 5:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/id-snake-copperhead/689477 "2014-05-28T17:36:14Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 9\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Earl\_Snake-Hips\_Tucker](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/earl_snake-hips_tucker/32/3269_2.png) [@Earl\_Snake-Hips\_Tucker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Earl_Snake-Hips_Tucker)\ **Post date:** [May 28, 2014, 5:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/id-snake-copperhead/689477/1 "2014-05-28T17:36:14Z")
[Getting a meal](http://s294.photobucket.com/user/badger60/media/snakk_zpsb362355f.jpg.html). ---
**Author:** ![Crotalus](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/crotalus/32/41_2.png) [@Crotalus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Crotalus)\ **Post date:** [May 28, 2014, 5:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/id-snake-copperhead/689477/2 "2014-05-28T17:43:50Z")
Earl, it’s a water snake, non-venomous, probably the species that Cannydan and I disagred about last year. I think it is a brown water snake. [Link.](https://www.flmnh.ufl.edu/herpetology/fl-guide/nerodiataxispilota.htm) ---
**Author:** ![Earl\_Snake-Hips\_Tucker](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/earl_snake-hips_tucker/32/3269_2.png) [@Earl\_Snake-Hips\_Tucker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Earl_Snake-Hips_Tucker)\ **Post date:** [May 28, 2014, 7:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/id-snake-copperhead/689477/3 "2014-05-28T19:08:53Z")
Thank you! ---
**Author:** ![tapu](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/49beb7/32.png) [@tapu](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/tapu)\ **Post date:** [May 29, 2014, 1:52am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/id-snake-copperhead/689477/4 "2014-05-29T01:52:24Z")
Not so fast. What snakes are common in your area? Here’s a partly related blog post I made about copperheads vs other snakes, with pix: [http://tapu-tapu-tapu.blogspot.com/2012/06/appalachian-summer.html](http://tapu-tapu-tapu.blogspot.com/2012/06/appalachian-summer.html) ---
**Author:** ![tapu](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/49beb7/32.png) [@tapu](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/tapu)\ **Post date:** [May 29, 2014, 2:00am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/id-snake-copperhead/689477/5 "2014-05-29T02:00:35Z")
Google Copperhead Snake and look at Images. It is very hard to distinguish a copperhead from a lot of other snakes. And you want to err on the side of caution. Oh yeah. ---
**Author:** ![Lucas\_Jackson](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lucas_jackson/32/303_2.png) [@Lucas\_Jackson](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lucas_Jackson)\ **Post date:** [May 29, 2014, 2:04am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/id-snake-copperhead/689477/6 "2014-05-29T02:04:39Z")
I agree the marking look like the brown water snake. But the OP’s pic looks like it has a diamond head. ---
**Author:** ![turtlescanfly](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/65b543/32.png) [@turtlescanfly](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/turtlescanfly)\ **Post date:** [May 29, 2014, 2:06am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/id-snake-copperhead/689477/7 "2014-05-29T02:06:24Z")
Sorry, you have to move. ---
**Author:** ![CurtC](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/ce73a5/32.png) [@CurtC](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CurtC)\ **Post date:** [May 29, 2014, 2:41am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/id-snake-copperhead/689477/8 "2014-05-29T02:41:47Z")
> [@White SIFL](#): > > I agree the marking look like the brown water snake. But the OP’s pic looks like it has a diamond head. The brown water snakes that I see in Google Images also have a triangular head (is that what you mean?). I agree that it’s not a copperhead, because I see them all the time, and it does look a lot like the other brown water snakes in Google Images - there are even other pics there of them eating fish, which I’ve never seen a copperhead do. ---
**Author:** ![Leo\_Bloom](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/leo_bloom/32/10377_2.png) [@Leo\_Bloom](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Leo_Bloom)\ **Post date:** [May 29, 2014, 2:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/id-snake-copperhead/689477/9 "2014-05-29T14:09:02Z")
_Serpentem coxis._