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<blockquote data-quote="STM" data-source="post: 308382" data-attributes="member: 12827">Nice stuff, very sharp!At first I thought the &quot;snake on the log&quot; was a Cottonmouth because the coloration looked right, but its body is not nearly stout enough and the head not triangular enough. I shot this one pointing down in a culvert with the 180mm f/2.8. They are very ornery snakes, no doubt where the saying &quot;mean as a snake&quot; comes from. <a href="http://smg.photobucket.com/user/stm58/media/cottonmouth.jpg.html" target="_blank"><img src="http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v138/stm58/cottonmouth.jpg" alt="" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " style="" /></a>It is most likely a painted water snake which are often mistaken for a cottonmouth. They are nonvenomous but still pretty aggressive. Both are all over the place around here<a href="http://farm4.staticflickr.com/3233/2892562839_23e1c2c7f7_z.jpg" target="_blank">http://farm4.staticflickr.com/3233/2892562839_23e1c2c7f7_z.jpg</a></blockquote>

[QUOTE="STM, post: 308382, member: 12827"] Nice stuff, very sharp! At first I thought the "snake on the log" was a Cottonmouth because the coloration looked right, but its body is not nearly stout enough and the head not triangular enough. I shot this one pointing down in a culvert with the 180mm f/2.8. They are very [I]ornery[/I] snakes, no doubt where the saying "mean as a snake" comes from. [URL="http://smg.photobucket.com/user/stm58/media/cottonmouth.jpg.html"][IMG]http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v138/stm58/cottonmouth.jpg[/IMG][/URL] It is most likely a painted water snake which are often mistaken for a cottonmouth. They are nonvenomous but still pretty aggressive. Both are all over the place around here [URL]http://farm4.staticflickr.com/3233/2892562839_23e1c2c7f7_z.jpg[/URL] [/QUOTE]

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