Rare Find in Central FL
 

Well I have found one alive!
Over the past few years a few DOR but this year got lucky.
One of the most majestic snakes in the area, very secretive for such a large animal. Nice 5 ft+ female released to hopefully breed this year.
Enjoy...mike

A beauty!

Nice!

I've seen a few pines up here in north Florida but they absolutely did NOT care for human beings at all. I saw a rather large one crossing the road near my house while I was driving home from work. Just saw the back end easing off the road into the bushes. I stopped the truck and as soon as I had opened the door, I heard it hissing to beat hell already. I just walked over to take a look at the big piney at the ready to defend itself to the death, then got back in the truck and continued on home.

The ones up here that I have seen seem to be darker colored than the one in your pic.

Wow, nice find Mike.:thumbsup:

Wow, Great find :)

Great find.. the last one I encountered was eating the chicks of a person whom I was petsitting for :( I took her home getting ready to relocate her to a State Park and she ended up laying 19 eggs for me! I ended up hatching out the eggs and all survived.. I released mom and the babies into the park and my backyard and still see a few occasionally but they sure don't like humans!

thats really awesome to be able to do all that... congrats :)

That has got to be one of the nicest finds I've seen in a long time. I was on my way to one of my fishing spots a few days ago and there was a nice E. g. guttata laying in the middle of the dirt road I was on. It had stopped and done the little 'I am a stick' freeze, which probably would have gotten either it's head or tail ran over if I hadn't been thinking about slowing down and doing a little road hunting in the early morning sun. It's about a 3-footer, and I am leaning towards a male, although I haven't probed it yet. At first, I was going to just put it off the road, but after I looked it over a bit and could not find a single flaw in it's pattern, I decided it was time to move my male D. c. corais out of his 55-gal and into a 75, and let this little corn snake have the 55. I usually don't get excited over corn snakes, but this little one ate a fresh-killed mouse out of my hand as soon as I got it home, and never offered to defend itself other than a little musk and tail shake now and then.

nice find

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