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Northern Water Snake

Nerodia sipedon sipedon

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Field Notes

Description:

This was a good sized snake -- the second biggest I've seen up at Parolin's Pond. Just not quite big enough to take a full grown bullfrog! The water snake population seems to have dramatically increased in the last year -- I'm hoping it's just part of nature's ebb and flow.

Habitat:

Around an old dilapidated dock on the bank of a boggy lake.

Notes:

Earlier that day I spotted two snaked on top of the dock copulating -- I think this is the female.

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Northern water snake

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honalee
Only snake that eats the invasive cane toad...

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PublishedSeptember 15, 2013

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