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Backyard baby....Southern black racer?

Caryl

Caryl

BrightHope
My husband found a baby snake while hanging laundry over the weekend. It actually leaped upward from branch to branch in a shrub by the house. I've never seen a snake do that. Pretty cool! We live in a subdivision, so I caught it and put it in my "emergency viv." This afternoon we relocated it to a more snake-friendly locale nearby.

It was about 16 inches long, and mostly black on top. There were traces visible of a blotched pattern, and the dots near the ventral edge of its sides were sort of burgundy/maroon. Its eyes were reddish orange. I'm guessing that this little cutie is a young Southern black racer. We have a lot of king snakes in the area, but the head shape looks wrong to me for a Lampropeltis. What say you?
 

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That is the CUTEST little baby racer!!! And yes, it's definitely a racer. I'm glad you decided not to keep it. Even though they don't get large, they require a much larger viv than usual due to their incredibly active nature.
 
Thanks, Robbie and Fred. I'm glad to have had a chance to check out this baby up close. I don't remember ever seeing a juvenile before, though I've see adults from time to time. I wish him/her a long, safe life in the wild.
 
Cool! I've never seen the in-between phase. If you want to see a snake jumping up a tree, look at the you tube video "snake vs rabbit.' (Nothing bad happens).
 
Nanci said:
Cool! I've never seen the in-between phase. If you want to see a snake jumping up a tree, look at the you tube video "snake vs rabbit.' (Nothing bad happens).
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Nanci I have been catching racers since I could walk and I have never seen that phase either. Lots of babies I caught more adults as I got older but yeah that is very interesting
 
snakemaster24 said:
Nanci I have been catching racers since I could walk and I have never seen that phase either. Lots of babies I caught more adults as I got older but yeah that is very interesting
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Thanks. I'd seen a lot of adults, but nary a juvenile like this. I feel even luckier to have caught it since reading comments like this. :dancer:
 
definately a baby racer. i used to catch those little guys every time i visited my grandparents and then when we finally moved down to louisiana.
they are pretty cool.
 
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