I'd say an Eastern Brown snake.

Here is a link that might be useful: {{gwi:1262211}}

Or a garter snake.

Here is a link that might be useful: Garter snake link (one of many)

Yeah, I think Brown snake too. I let that one get away. I'll tell you, I've seen more snakes this spring than I have in a long time. Had to kill one Sat. That's about 5-6 in 4 weeks. It's mating season I hear, but I wish these guys would go somewhere else to do their wooing.

Why HAD? Just curious as to what kind of snakes you're finding that need to be killed. That Brown Snake is a pretty one, isn't he?

I have mostly copperheads, and if you think they're cute please discontinue posting. I appreciate your position and love of nature, but I don't like them, never have and never will. Enough said.

Grouchy? All I asked was what kind of snakes you had to kill! I didn't mean a single thing by it other than: I wonder what kind of snakes? Not real sure how you could read anything into that. I am not about to try to convince people who do not like snakes to do so. I have been forced to kill a few myself. I can't help but wonder what 'position' you've decided I've taken, lol.

But I STILL say that that Brown Snake is pretty. ;-)

Anyway, have a good day....and I REALLY do mean that!

It's an Eastern Garter Snake. The checkerboard pattern on it is more well-defined than on most garter snakes which gives it a brown snake kind of apperance (brown snakes being characterized by the houndstooth pattern). But note the light colored stripe across the top of the snake and the light coloration on the lower beneath the eye part of the head.

As others have said very nice looking snake!

rhizo_1 -
LOL. Thanks, I will have a good day. You too. I don't care if you like those things. A lot of the posts I've read lately have quite a few leaning to the "like" rather than the "dislike" side, so I naturally thought you were trying to stir the pot.

wayne_mo -
Thanks for the ID.

Anyway, they make me more nervous than anything else. They're showing up all over my place.

I haven't really read much on this board, so you may already know about this site, but here is a great site for snake IDs.

http://www.bio.davidson.edu/projects/herpcons/herpcons.html

pcj42 -
Thanks. I'll give it a looksee.

Not trying to stir the pot, but both non posionous and even posionous snakes eat lots of pests we don't want in out gardens, sheds or homes. Killing them really isn't nessecary and they can be moved with a snake hook or even a shovel. Killing animals just because they are there and I don't like them seems like a poor excuse. No flame inteneded, but it would be better to throw them back in the woods. I've been bitten by a copperhead and it was my fault and I didn't kill him because he happened to be posionous and I was handling him incorrectly. I'm far from being a tree hugger, I hunt and fish, but don't think the idea of killing because you don't like an animal is very sporting. Garter snakes are great around the garden as they eat slugs and so will baby copperheads.