Pic. Forwarded to me from a friend.
Pine snake maybe?
Chicken snake around here (arkansas) might be called a yellow rat snake.
I’m inclined towards a checkered version of the Eastern Garter Snake. A la this guy.
The one of these that looks the most like the photo is the cottonmouth.
All I know is that it has your hips.
I agree with Tamerlane, although if it was fifteen inches in length or less it could have been a northern brown snake. A garter snake would be over two feet long at sexual maturity.
I’ll agree with the others and say it looks awful garter snakey to me. Ours usually aren’t quite as brown as that one, but it’s pretty close to the checkered version of our garter snakes up in WV.
Thanks, all.
Is that a rattle? (Scrolling down). Nope, head’s wrong. Not a copperhead; same reason.
One company cookout the boss, as one should, gingerly opened the rental grill with his machete, as one should, yelled, “Copperhead!” and chopped it to pieces, as one should. Why bring a machete to a cookout in St Charles, IL?
We had trucks coming in from our plant in Florida all the time, and he was a country boy. I bet he used a long stick to knock logs off his woodpile, too. And wore heavy leather boots when he did yard work (dad was fond of Army surplus paratrooper boots). Y’all need to be prudent.
One caveat – almost all the checkered garter snakes I googled have a prominent white or pale dorsal stripe. The OP’s snake doe not appear to have one (at least, not a prominent one).
Not a checkered garter snake( which don’t occur in the Carolinas ), but rather a checkered pattern eastern garter snake. Completely different species. Eastern garter snakes( and most garter snakes generally )usually have that pale dorsal strip as well, but like a number of snake species than can get pretty variable. In this case this looks like one with the two side stripes, but lacking a dorsal stripe. A tricksy critter ;).
A brown snake is a pretty good guess as well as they also have a variable but similar pattern, but as Crotalus noted they’re usually pretty small. Most of them( but not all, I’m sure )also seem to have some darker coloration towards the back of the head.
I think brown snake is the closest but there are some problems with the pattern.
Ok, I’ll concur with that. One pic from your cite looks very close.