Snake love

[EAS]

During a wade on the Fox today I happened upon a log jam that was adorned with frisky northern water snakes. The biggest ones were wary of me and slithered into the water. The smaller ones were very curious and in a mating frenzy. They were either males looking for their female (who slipped into the water on my approach), or vice versa. They flicked their tongues and slithered all over the log pile looking for each other. At one point I counted six on the logs and two in the water. They came right up to me. The ones in the pics are around 2' long. The larger ones I saw were twice as thick and about 3' long. Their color intensities varied but they looked beautiful when they came out of the water and glistened in the afternoon sun.

[kfischerman]

Love is grand! All non poisonous water snakes have the skeleton mouth that your photos show very well. The northern water snake looks alot like our banded water snake here in the south.

[Shoal Tide]

that is cool

[turkey]

i'm jealous...that is way too cool

[robday1211]

that's closer than I would have gotten to that snake fest... what's the focal length on that lens, EAS?

[RiveRover]

Those look alot like the ones we have here in Tx also.....Great pics!

[EAS]

18-55mm

Most of those shots were taken at full zoom and a few were with the macro setting, lens about a foot away.

[blake]

Very cool, both getting to see the "action" and the photos.

[Jump n Fish]

Very romantic!!

[Harv]

Shouldn't this have an NC-17 rating!

[Gator Hater]

Nice pics. Thanks for sharing those.

[jjjbluray]

Snake porn lol. Nice pics though!