Southern Banded Watersnake - Nerodia fasciata fasciata

Southern Banded Watersnake (Nerodia fasciata fasciata)


*An especially pretty fasciata, Savannah River Site, Aiken Co., SC - May 2003* Captured in a minnow trap in a temporary wetland

Savannah River Site, Aiken Co., SC - May 2003

Savannah River Site, Aiken Co., SC - May 2003

Kiawah Island, Charleston Co., SC - May 2007 gravid female - captured by hand in a brackish pool

Kiawah Island, Charleston Co., SC - May 2007

Kiawah Island, Charleston Co., SC - May 2007

Kiawah Island, Charleston Co., SC - May 2007

Eating a mole salamander (Ambystoma talpoideum)

Eating a mole salamander (Ambystoma talpoideum)

Eating a fish (Lepomis sp.)

Savannah River Site, Aiken Co., SC - July 2004 venter

Savannah River Site, Aiken Co., SC - April 2004 Large Female in situ - found abroad during the day in cypress swamp

Savannah River Site, Aiken Co., SC - April 2004

Savannah River Site, Aiken Co., SC - July 2007 This is a watersnake I originally captured and marked at Ellenton Bay in 2005. After Ellenton Bay dried in fall 2006, this snake was captured by Tom Luhring (SREL) at dry day, the nearest fishless wetland still holding water, over 2 miles away.

Aiken Co., SC - June 2002 Juvenile, Captured while roadcruising at night on a dirt road through a floodplain forest