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This page contains photos of Florida Green Water Snakes.
This website contains my personal photos of snakes and lizards. All animals are free and unrestrained. All photos are taken by me. I use A Field Guide to Snakes of Florida by Alan Tennant to identify snakes. |
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11 June 2001 at 8:43pm. Loop Road in Big Cypress Swamp. When I set a flashlite in front of this snake, the snake sat motionless, staring into the flashlight. Photo taken with 135mm lens on helicoid and flash. |
Loop Road is very quiet
when you go farther west; I took this photo at the east end where there are houses.
I wish I could have spent more time with this snake, but there was
traffic coming. I quickly took some photos and chased the snake off the road.
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| As adults these two species lose their patterns and become a dull brown/grey/olive green/black. They can still be distinguished by their eyes and the shape of their heads. |
| I found this snake while driving at night. The Florida Green Water Snake often "freezes" on the road when a flashlight is placed in front of it. This makes it easy to get a good photo. I let this snake get to the shoulder of the road before I stopped him with the flashlight so that I could get some blades of grass in the photo. Photo taken along Loop Road in Big Cypress Swamp on 26 July 2001 at 9:15pm. |
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3 May 2000. Shark Valley.
This snake was just off the west road within a half-mile of the parking lot. It held its ground and let me take several photos. This was taken when I was visiting Florida before I decided to move there. It was my first visit to Shark Valley. I did not have a bicycle and was walking down the west roadway. |
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These two photos were taken at Paynes Praire, near Gainesville Florida, on 10 April 2008
at about 12:30pm.
Specifically they were taken from the boardwalk between Lake Wauberg and Sawgrass Pond.
I think both photos are the same snake, but since there were several moving around right alongside the boardwalk, it's hard to be certain. In the second photo the snake has a fish. It moved into the grass before it swallowed the fish. |
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