Corn Snake

[Teegate]

All,

Jessica and I are going to spend more time this summer looking for snakes. So today we headed out with two places in mind to check for them. We struck out with both and decided to look for a few property corners. Along the way I found this.

When I picked it up the snake was really cold and felt like ice, and when I handed it to Jessica she actually said the same thing to me. Very sluggish and docile. This was our first Corn Snake find.

 

[Teegate]

Turkey Trot and a Few Deer.

 

[manumuskin]

Corn snake is one of the three species I"ve never encountered in NJ in the wild! Awesome Guy! There is a rumor that jersey corns are drab and not very pretty compared to more southern corns.This has just put that crap in the garbage can! gorgeous snake!

 

[Teegate]

Glad you and everyone liked it. Jessica was especially thrilled to see it.

Here is a full size view of it. Click it to enlarge.

http://teegate.njpinebarrens.com/04152017/IMG_1022d.jpg

 

[manumuskin]

The last corn sighted in Cumberland County was a DOR on Ackley Rd in the 90's about two miles from my house.There is a theory that the Black rat snakes have bred with them and swamped their DNA.Many of out Black rats down here have red streaks in them and being a Corn is a red rat snake and it is not inconceivable they would breed with each other.We have Black rats out the wazoo down here and I have seen many with red in them.

 

[NJChileHead]

Awesome Guy! There is a rumor that jersey corns are drab and not very pretty compared to more southern corns.

What's that they say?

 

[NJChileHead]

Glad you and everyone liked it. Jessica was especially thrilled to see it.

Here is a full size view of it. Click it to enlarge.

http://teegate.njpinebarrens.com/04152017/IMG_1022d.jpg

I'm thrilled to see it too. Spectacular!!

 

[Teegate]

Someone I know found this Corn yesterday.

 

[ecampbell]

They do climb. I had one in the loft of my barn years ago.

 

[manumuskin]

Rat snakes are all climbers.Black rats i often find in trees as well.One my wife spotted over 100 ft off the ground on Wasilik Poplar,the second biggest Tulip Poplar known in NC.