ID these snakes

[nermal]

I've had a few too many close encounters with various snakes while out bicycling over the past month or so. Are there any snakeologists here that can identify them? How dangerous are they?

Just trying to gauge how likely I am to end up as snake food. All of them looked pretty hungry.

#1 - Black & Yellow (striped)

#2 - Burgundy & White (camo pattern)

#3 - Solid Black on top with Soft White Underbelly

#4 - Black with White spots... and legs!

[ibRAD]

@nermal #1 is a garter snake. Harmless!

#2 looks like a northern water snake. Harmless.

#4 is a salamander. Also harmless.

Don't know what #3 is, but probably harmless unless you're in Australia, in which case you're probably already dead.

Edit: I think #3 is a rat snake.

[ash78]

#2 has me viscerally saying it's time to go. I think that's a copperhead (note: depending on what's common in your area, this could also just be a corn/milk snake, but I take no chances in the South in the summer!)

The others look like run of the mill garter and rat snakes, but I'm not googling, just spitballing.

Also, the last one is some kind of Pokemon. Charmander?

[Just Jeepin']

@ibRAD Almost certainly rat.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pantherophis_obsoletus

[Urambo Tauro]

@nermal I don't see any "red touches yellow", so you're okay fellow!

[ibRAD]

@Just-Jeepin We went to a provincial park years ago that supposedly had an uncommon for Ontario rat snake population, but unfortunately did not get to see any!

[ash78]

@Urambo-Tauro Wait, I thought it was red-touches-black, hit the road jack!

Maybe that was from the Ray Charles movie.

I CAN'T KEEP UP!

[MisterButtercup]

@nermal #2 on the list is the only one I'd get away from quickly, the others are - like earth - mostly harmless.

[Sovande]

@nermal
#1 is a garter snake. Harmless.

#2 looks like either a juvenile black rat snake or some other variation of rat snake or milk snake. Harmless.

#3 is a black rat snake. Harmless.

#4 is a salamander that will turn your bones to mush. Or just a harmless salamander.

[Bloody-the-resident-LandRover-apologist]

@Just-Jeepin @nermal I think #3 is a Northern Black Racer. I had to recuse a little guy last year when he got himself caught up in my deer netting in my veggie garden. They play dead and let off a god awful smell, and that's about it.

[XJDano]

@ash78 copperheads are more copper colored. this guy was just off the trail.

[ash78]

@XJDano Nice, yeah, I have seen a lot of variation in copperheads based on age and lighting, but you're right they're almost never so reddish.

Hate those things. The only snake that has ever followed me.

[Highlander]

@nermal #2 looks like an eastern rat snake aka a gopher snake.

[ibRAD]

@Sovande said in ID these snakes:

#2 looks like either a juvenile black rat snake or some other variation of rat snake or milk snake. Harmless.

I had said northern water snake, but I retract that statement. I took this photo last summer and the head pattern is clearly different

[ClassicDatsunDebate]

@nermal A SNAKE! OH A SNAKE!

[Roadkilled]

@nermal

#1 is Bob. He lives under a rock by the corner store.

#2 is Susan. I think she was out looking for her knitting group. (How does a snake without hands knit? That's a story for another day.)

#3 is Albert. Don't trust him. He is always up to no good.

#4 is somebody I don't recognize. They must be a stranger from out of town.

[WasGTIthenGTOthenNOVAthenGTInowA4]

@nermal

[adamftw]

@Bloody-the-resident-LandRover-apologist racers are smooth and matte, rats and glossy and textured. racers are also more aggressive, and yea, they poop as a defense.

I would catch them a lot in scouts, and we learned pretty quickly to leave the racers alone bc the rat snakes were a lot more chill

[Mr.Ontop]

@nermal I don't want to be around snakes at all....unless theya re boot shaped

[EssExTee]

@nermal

#1 Garter snake: they're chill dudes
#2 Could be a corn snek. They're more scared of you.
#3 Most likely a rat snake.

[mocamino]

@ClassicDatsunDebate But does @nermal live in Africa?

[nermal]

@Sovande said in ID these snakes:

#4 is a salamander that will turn your bones to mush.

I checked the maps and this photo location was around 200 miles away from Three Mile Island.

#4 didn't want to eat me, he wanted to steal my phone and order an Uber. I've seen enough Godzilla movies to know what happens next.

[SamV8]

@ClassicDatsunDebate