Snake ID please!

Is this a Racer? He's about 4 ft long - fast as lightning, very docile - loves to climb trees and look in my office window at me while I work. Taken with the 100 macro.

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Can't help you with the ID Trent, but this is a very nice image. Lovely background colors and nice bokeh. Good job.

Looks like a garter snake to me.
Nice capture.
Edit: Wholy cow... looking at your updated posts below... That thing is huge!
again nice capture... would be fun to find out what it is...

Here's a couple snaps I got of a blue racer if it helps. I was scanning the trees for hawks and almost stepped on this one.

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no idea about ID Trent but you have nailed it right in the head,good capture.

Whats a deadly Australian fierce Snake doing in Michigan? I wouldn't worry about it, there are probably only a few around.

LOL! it looks like a black rat snake.

Thanks everyone. Doug, thanks for those images - mine is definitely is not a blue racer. Wiselion, be glad my wife didnt read your post! Kraig, yours seems to make the most sense so far. Thanks for the compliment Dimitri, Brian and Digital. I didnt know garters got that big!! . PS Wise, I am in Texas not Michigan, but I',m sure the Michiganders will forgive you!!

Don't know what kind of snake it is, but you got a nice shot of it. Personally, I would not have used the 100mm macro. I would use a much longer lens so I could stand way, way far away. You are much braver than I am!

Where do you work at??? Nice shots!!

nice shot it is a snake I am sure of that ...lol

Cool, It looks like a rat snake and I remember reading about the black variety, and if you read about their behaviour, there's something about them climbing tree's well enough to hunt.. There's also the black mountain king snake, but they have different color paterns around the head that is closer to a pale yellow and instead of solid white belly scales, it's more of a speckled patern. What region are you in.

here's a link to a picture of a black rat snake. http://www.bio.davidso​n.edu/projects/tate/Te​rms.htm

Hi Trent,

It looks to me to be a racer. There are various colors of them around here and the old timers also call them "coachwhips". I've seen the black and silver ones out my way.

Two very nice captures of a rat snake. Well done.