Can someone ID this snake?

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I found this poor guy road-killed in Southern New England. It's head is a little flattened.

Is it a copperhead? I can ID garter and water snakes, but this one has me stumped. It's the second one of these that I've seen in my life.

Thanks!

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the broad head makes it look like a copper head But I would expect the shape of the head to be more pronounced.. Looks more like a variant of an eastern milksnake to me...
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But I'm no expert either, Copper heads while generally docile here in the NE have a more "sinister" look to them when you see one there is little doubt it is a venomous snake. But as I said this appears to m to be an eastern milksnake
 
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Doesn't look at all like a copperhead to me other than coloring. Head is patterned. Body pattern is wrong. Don't know what it is though
 
Ah, milk snake it is. I just googled it and it has the Y or V pattern on the head. Thanks!
 
Corn snake, Elaphe guttata. Chocolate corn snake to be specific. I've owned them in the past. Not poisonous at all, and get to be really gorgeous as they age. Get to be about six feet long when fully grown.

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A baby...
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And an amelanistic (red albino)...
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corn snakes and milk snakes are very similar but "corn snakes are not found this far north in the east...thier range extends fron the FLorida Keys to Southern New Jersey..Well south of where the OP photo was taken. Soon However Joezilla will show up and put this thread to rest with a definite answer.
 
copper heads have a hour glass shaped pattern on them that one does not so im not sure what type it is
 
Definitely NOT a copperhead. Not certain about the corn snake/milk snake thing though. It doesn't look like my corn snake, but there are so many color variations.
 
It doesn not look like a copperhead - the head is not broad enough and the coloring, while close, is too pronounced. It's certainly non-poisonous, probably a milk or corn snake as others said.
 
Eastern milks are native to the area. Corn snakes don't appear to be.

Thanks, all.
 
Milk Snake... very common in the Northeast.

I walked out of the house yesterday and there was large Black Rat Snake sunning on rear bumper of my Dodge pick-up. :-)


Stay sharp,
desmobob
 
It's a Milk Snake. We have red ones up here too.

One of the tell tale signs is the black checker pattern on the belly.
 
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