Dead Northern Water Snake - Nerodia sipedon
Sorry for the disturbing photo, but this is an example of what can happen when people act out of fear. This is a dead, baby northern water snake - I found a whole pile of baby snake chunks that had been hacked up. They were piled in the middle of a grassy area next to a pond. The parents (at least, I assume they were the parents) were alive and lingering nearby. These snakes nest in the area and I see them regularly. Unfortunately, many people fear them and kill them out of fear that they are venomous. The snakes are inncocent, however. I think these babies had been either purposely mowed over or else chopped and piled up. A sad sight, indeed.
The northern water snake is a species of large, nonvenomous, common snake in the family Colubridae. The species is native to North America.
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Unfortunately, it is this way all over the US. I've had people flag me down (in my own neighborhood) and tell me to run over a "copperhead" in the road when it was clearly not that species! People go out of their ways to harm these innocent creatures, and it is horrifying. Posted 6 years ago