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Is this a water moccasin?
Is this a water moccasin?
Tristan saw this snake this weekend at the RC plane field in Delray. At first he thought it was a water moccasin but after he got home and looked it up on the internet was wasn't so sure. This picture is not so great because first of all he didn't want to get too close to a water moccasin, and also because it was taken with Chip's blackberry since they didn't have a camara handy. I hope it is a good enough picture for someone to identify it.
- mpackard
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Re: Is this a water moccasin?
no
- ecogirl
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Re: Is this a water moccasin?
any ideas as to what it could be?....
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- pgomez
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Re: Is this a water moccasin?
Cedar wrote the earlier, "no"...
It's hard to tell without seeing the shape of the head. If the head is shaped like a spade, it usually means a venomous snake, which would mean a Water Moccasin and it would be juvenile -small and striped. However, it is most likely a Brown Water Snake, which is the not-so-evil twin of the Cottonmouth, without the spade shaped head. What does Tristan think?
- ecogirl
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Re: Is this a water moccasin?
Tristan said, "well there are actually a few snakes that look like that". He said that it had sort of a spade shaped head, but not a skinny head. It also had a orangish/yellowish head and he thinks it might be a copper head snake.
- mpackard
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Re: Is this a water moccasin?
I don't know if it is because I can't see the photo well but maybe if I research I'll find it
- danithewitch9
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