NYFalls.com Talk

Yuck, I was hoping for far fewer snake stories...I will often bang my tripod on the ground as I walk to help let the snakes know I am coming....I have been fortunate so far.

Cucumber Falls in Ohiopyle State Park is famous for copperheads.

Snakes are one reason I really enjoy winter photography.

Kyle, that's a beautiful kingsnake! Unless it was an escapee though, you wouldn't find it in NY. (Note the black bands adjacent to the red bands, thus the children's rhyme.)

That's not a milk snake? I googled milk snake and got that image and had a dozen+ more images that looked the same.

They are from the same genus, Lampropeltis. The snake in my photo, is an eastern milk snake. Your photo could well be a species of milk snake, but I don't think that it's one that is native to our area. When I see that snake, I automatically think king snake. Here's a good page: Lampropeltis

Eastern milk snakes will not get that bright, Kyle. They seem to lose their color up north.
I think this would be as bright as they come up here

Note blotches, not rings.


Coral snakes are ringed and they are very tropical-looking with their very bright red and yellow (or cream instead of yellow) - as far as the common pet species would go.

I might add that the color will also appear more muted before a molt. I really didn't examine the one in the photo to see how close to molting it was, but it was pretty shiny.

All this talk about slithery things makes me anxious for spring!

I don't know. So long ago...but am pretty sure the colors were way brighter than those of the snakes you posted. I sent my cousin an email to see if he remembers.