Need help from snake experts...

[Cubfan64]

New Hampshire - seen him/her a couple times the last 2 weeks - seems it found a nice place to hunt rodents from under a 6x6 landscape timber.

I've looked at a few pictures of NH snakes, but some of them seem to have various colors and I couldn't figure it out.

Whatcha think it is?

 

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[lucky1777]

Not an expert, but it looks to me to be a (Nerodia Sipedon Sipedon) a.k.a. Norther Water Snake.

 

[kieser sousa/rip]

milk snake.

 

[Don in SJ]

Lucky is correct, Northern Water Snake

 

[lucky1777]

They are good at keeping down the rodent and frog population. How far are you from any water. I know the common water snake is not to far from water. I also can tell you if he is anything like his cousin (common water snake) they can get pretty testy and pack a mean bite.

 

[lumbercamp]

Water snake is correct. That is one snake that I very seldom pick up as they will repeatedily strike at you. I brought one home when I was a teenager, thinking it would make a good pet, but was it every nasty. I let it go after a day.

 

[RON (PA)]

Nice Pic. Keep him up there in New Hampshire . We don't need any more snakes here in Pittsburgh. I haven't seen a snake here is years and I want to keep it that way .

 

[SC_hunter]

Cub....if you can see that their pupils are round then 99 percent of the time in the US they are non poisonous. The exception is the Coral snake and it bright colored little snake. Let him get all the rodents his little heart desires..

 

[Cubfan64]

Thanks for the replies!!! I had originally thought milk snake too, but after seeing the picture of the water snake and the other response, I'm going with that.

I happen to have a pretty good sized drainage pond within about 50 yards of the house!! Lots of rock and stuff around the pond, so I'm kinda surprised it would rather spend it's time up by the house, but maybe it's his "summer home"

Thanks again!

 

[muleskinner]

Got bit by a watersnake when I was a kid. We were swimming ai a local gravelpit, the thing bit me in the stomach, I yelled, reached down and grabbed it and thru it into the middle of the pit. You should have seen the people leave that pond! They're endangered around here, come think of it so is every other snake that ventures onto my property.