I had one show up at house last 2 years and raid the robin nest and the cardinal nest eggs. I have a cardinal sitting on 2 eggs in the bush where the robin nested last year. No signs of Blackie yet.
I live on a private road with very little traffic. This one was sunning in the middle of my road and my neighbor drove right over it barely flattening it. 4 and a half foot long. I got it out of the road. Beautiful creatures.
That is a healthy looking specimen. I've seen "experts" who claim that only nonvenomous snakes climb like that. But haven't you ever seen a cotton mouth hanging in limbs over water??
Rattlesnakes also climb into trees as do other species of venomous snakes, some snake experts....Saw a black snake down in SC one day in a bush sunning itself..
While trout fishing Wilson Creek, my wife didn't wanna carry her rod through the thicket bushwhacking down to where I was at. She said catch my rod. Lol. It landed about 3 feet away and when I reached for the rod it almost gave me stress incontinence. Lol. Any idea what kind of snake this is?