Mike55 Goldmember  4,206 posts Likes: 9 Joined Jun 2007 Location: Chicago, Illinois More info | Sep 19, 2011 15:43 | #1
This was taken on Saturday in Starved Rock State Park, Illinois with a cell phone. I thought it might be a pine snake, but I don;t think that's correct. It looks to be a cottonmouth or eastern massasauga rattlesnake. Thanks for any tips. 6D | 70D | 24-105 L IS | 17-40 L | 300 F4 L IS | 50 1.8 II | 1.4x II | LR5 | HV30 | bug spray | wilderness
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Sep 19, 2011 18:25 | #2 Looks a lot like a cottonmouth to me. Nick
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Sep 19, 2011 18:54 | #3 Or a Diamondback Water Snake. Need a tighter head shot to tell. Looks a bit long for cottonmouth.
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Sep 19, 2011 19:00 | #4 The length was throwing me off, and it doesnt quite have the girth of a cottonmouth. But that banding, and what I think are the eyes, make me think it is one. Nick
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kitlens Goldmember  1,150 posts Likes: 1 Joined Mar 2008 Location: Durham, NC More info | Keith Newton wrote in post #13129658  Or a Diamondback Water Snake. Need a tighter head shot to tell. Looks a bit long for cottonmouth. That must be a new hybrid. My flickr
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Mike55 THREAD STARTER Goldmember 4,206 posts Likes: 9 Joined Jun 2007 Location: Chicago, Illinois More info | Sep 20, 2011 11:39 | #6 Good guess, but I don't think we have comon brown water snakes in northern Illinois. 6D | 70D | 24-105 L IS | 17-40 L | 300 F4 L IS | 50 1.8 II | 1.4x II | LR5 | HV30 | bug spray | wilderness
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tkerr Goldmember  3,042 posts Likes: 2 Joined Mar 2010 Location: Hubert, North Carolina, USA. More info | Sep 20, 2011 18:17 | #7 Mike55 wrote in post #13133531 Good guess, but I don't think we have comon brown water snakes in northern Illinois. No, but you do have the Broadband Water Snake up there. Tim Kerr
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MakeMeShutter Goldmember  1,343 posts Likes: 28 Joined Jan 2009 Location: Upstate New York More info | Sep 20, 2011 18:48 | #8 I'm not a snake person, but my guess is Northern Water Snake. New York Dragonflies
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Primative Senior Member  364 posts Joined Jun 2011 Location: Middle Tennessee More info | Common Banded Water Snake, we have them all over in middle Tennessee. 1D MKIIn, 7D, 50D, 20D, 300/f2.8 L IS, 70-200/f2.8 IS II L, 70-200 f4 L, IS, 24-105/f4 L IS, 100-400 f/4 L, EF1.4 II, EF2X II, 28-135/f4 IS, 17-85/f4 IS
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