A snake you don't see everyday

My dog found this little milksnake at my house yesterday evening. In all my years of living in the country and handling snakes in this area, this is the first one I have every found. I released it in my field.

Man thats Cool...

Not cool enough for me to get all handsy with it

But Cool

Very cool!

Thats an awesome snake!

Very cool looking snake Mark. Well played releasing it.

Very cool. I think I have only ever seen 2 of them in my life and one was in La Salle County.

Good for you. 99% of the people would think it was a coral snake and kill it.

red on black, friend of jack. Red on yellow, kill a fellow. Cool snake.

+1.

Beautiful snake!

nice to see there are people that appreciate nature

Awesome, great find and better release

You find a lot of cool snakes out your way, this one is really special though. Great find !!

Glad to see it was released, I have never seen one.

Cool looking snake

Wonder why they call it a milk snake?

I thought it was a King Coral, or are they larger?

Sweet find! That's awesome!

I just recited that in my head.

That's a beauty. Must have shed very recently. We call them Coral King Snakes around my neck of the woods.

The way I heard it was "Red and yellow kill a fellow, red and black venom lack."

That's a different creature

X2

In all my travels in Texas and the untold hours I've spent out of doors, I have never run across a Milk Snake, Coral Snakes...yes, many times. Very COOL find!

As already noted, most folks would have killed it for a Coral Snake, not knowing the difference.



Of course, it is well to know that the color pattern for a Coral Snake (Red touch Yellow) only applies to the indigenous Corals of the United States, there are actually Coral snakes in other regions of the world that have 'Red touch Black' patterns (among others) that are indeed venomous snakes.

The Scarlet Kingsnake is another snake that is often mis-identified, but doesn't range too far into Texas.

What a great find...and my hat is off to you for taking good care of the milksnake.

Flint.

Actually, there's no such creature as a Coral King Snake. We have both Louisiana Milk Snakes (lampropeltis triangulum amaura) and the similarly patterned Scarlet King Snake (lampropeltis elapsoides), but they both get called Coral King Snakes. It's not correct, but that's the way it is.

The old saying is not always true. We caught this Texas Long Nose at our house several years ago and red does touch yellow.

Pretty cool find.

I found one in West Virginia when I was deer hunting once. It was about the size of the one you have pictured. Extremely pretty snake.

very cool

Very pretty snake. Had I found it I would have had to buy an aquarium, heat rock, mousies . . .

Cool snake.

Exactly

Oh man... please do not let kids play with snakes... they get the wrong message then end up in the hospital...

100% agree

ugh!