Northeast Bastrop county. That's my driveway. It must have shed recently, it had rich vivid color. The crappy dusk lighting pictures don't capture it.

We mostly see Texas rate snakes but the tighter patterning and greyer lights instead of more orangish tell me this is a prairie rat snake.

Indigo in Webb County on Sunday

Moved a Black rat snake across the road today. Did not expect to see one this time of year in East Tennessee. Of course, it was around 65 and it was on the blacktop.

This guy was pissed and rattling up a storm.

This fella is a little sluggish in this cold.

C.C. Bay Ag said:

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This little dude/dudette welcomed me back to the front door of camp on Sat. evening. Webb Co.

https://imgur.com/a/g4rGcny

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AGpops1923 said:

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I ordered the snake in a restaurant in China one time for S&Gs, and it did NOT taste like chicken. That serpent tasted like the devil.

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Snake translates to dog in mandarin

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I've been all over China and eaten all kinds of messed up junk over there.. so I'm sure I have tried the Shih Tzu, Char Pei, or Chow Chow-- and it probably tasted like chicken... but this was definitely snake. The menu translation said snake, the picture was a snake, and the platter was unmistakably a whole snake BBQd and cut up so you could scrape the meat off the skin and spit out the little grizzle riblets.

Is this a indigo? Cameron County

It is

Thats way east and north for an indigo. Sure it wasn't a racer?

I think you saw a coachwhip, which are common around BCS and can be nearly black.

12f Mane said:

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I think you saw a coachwhip, which are common around BCS and can be nearly black.

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Just down the road in Hempstead probably close to 30 years ago, I worked on a job where we were digging out burned out metal from an old burn pile to load into roll offs. We had black racers or coachwhips coming out of the pile like crazy every time we would disturb it. The helper kept grabbing them and pitching them off into the woods to keep them from getting crushed by the equipment, but the backhoe operator was terrified of them. The helper pulled one out that had crawled through the pull tab from a beer can and had it wrapped around its body cutting into the skin. He brought it over to the trucks and held it while I cut the tab off with snips.

When he took it back to release into the woods, we met the operator heading back up the hill in the opposite direction. Apparently another snake had crawled up under the backhoe and the operator bailed out and left. When the helper hopped in it to move it, it stalled when he tried to shift into reverse. After some trouble shooting, we figured out it was a blown fuse and replaced it. As soon as he shifted into reverse it died again. Same process and blew the last fuse he had. When we opened up the panel around the shifter to figure out what was going on, there was the snake curled up on top of the transmission, curled so tightly around the shifter that the electrical actuator was blowing fuses instead of shifting the transmission.

We ended up shutting down for the day because we couldn't reach the snake to pull him out without dismantling the backhoe. I got to call my boss and tell him our project had been shut down early for the day by a snake. Not sure he entirely believed us…