It was almost a year ago I found this speciment of a snake dead in the road not far from our house. It's a rural area, and I'd seen plenty of garter snakes, a rattlesnake or two, black snakes, and water snakes, but this was a first. The Eastern Milk Snake is not poisonous. This one is small, obviously young, about 15 inches in length. Most likely killed on the road at night, since they're nocturnal. They feed on small rodents, salamanders, other snakes, frogs, bird eggss.... it's not particular. For some live pictures of this snake, along with some of its cousins, you might want to click on the link. That blog is by a Canadian naturalist/photog/outdooors person.
No matter how hard I looked though, I still haven't discovered why this snake is called a "Milk" snake. I'll keep working on it...
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