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mullet:
 That sure is a pretty one. I'd like to have a couple of those.

Irontom:

--- Quote from: JustinNC on August 23, 2010, 09:56:20 am ---
Dont let the triangle head fool you. While pit vipers (Copperheads, rattlers, moccasins) all have a triangle head, a lot of harmless watersnakes do as well.

The give away on a cottonmouth is the dark horizontal band across the eye. I dont care if the snake is old and hardly has any pattern, or if it's a new born that still has a yellow tail (GIVE AWAY FOR A JUVY COPPERHEAD OR COTTONMOUTH!!!!, yellow tip of the tail!!), it will still have the dark horizontal band across the eye.

But yes,  cottonmouth.

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Would you happen to know the name of a few species or have some pics for us?  I've seen snakes whose patterning made their head look kinda triangular but on closer inspection its just an illusion.  When they get agitated and flatten their heads out it kinda gives that impression too...

NTD:
Lyre snakes, Northern Water Snakes and narrow headed garter snakes, of course the lyre snake is technically a venomous snake as well but is innocuous to humans.  None of these examples have quite the same bulbous triangular shape but I think illustrate Justin's point.

Western hognose snakes have a very triangular head but can exaggerate it a lot too.  Of course they are also mildly venomous.

FlintWalker:
That thar be a cotten mouth!  Patten ain't right for a timber (cane brake). There's a Timber rattlers head laying in the road in front of my house in case anybody wants a picture...fresh too ;D
 And before anybody gets their drawers in a wad...I didn't kill it. It was picked up out the road.

  I also has the black line across it's eye.

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ken75:
we have a banded water snake here with a triagular head also ,have to look close to tell its not poisenus,this one is but it came out nice real wide i think i can split it

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