Relocated this little guy....

[flyby]

From my neighbors yard yesterday.

[Fargus]

Good looking snake!

[hog_down]

what species?

[COOLDAD1]

what species?

Looks like a speckled king snake

[ultrastealth]

what species?

Speckled king snake. I have seen on in 30 years or so. They used to be pretty common in the Port O'Connor area.

[kurt68]

[medic151]

Been a long time since I have seen one of those.

[LoneStarCarnivo]

I relocate 40-50 snakes every year for people and have only run across one in the last 5 years. Such a beautiful and beneficial snake. Thank you for saving him.

[mattfox]

I have seen 2 on my property in the last year. 1 was about 18" long and the other was just about 1 month ago and it was probably about 4' long. cool snake. up until this past year I have only ever seen 1 in wild in my entire life

[okrattler]

Ran across a prairie kingsnake about a week ago. Haven't seen a speckled kingsnake yet this Summer. They're cool snakes but I don't like touching them if I don't have to. When they secrete that stuff when they get scared it's nasty.

[Deerguy]

Nice. SKS's make fun pets. Rarely bite and will eat just about anything. Good job not killing it.

[jerp]

I have become the "snake re-locator" in my neighborhood. I took on that job after seeing the guy next door hack a beautiful sing snake into pieces with a hoe. I get calls 6-8 times every year. It is almost always a rat snake of some kind. I'm sure there are some around, but in 18 years I have never seen a copperhead or rattler.

[be12hunt]

I saw a King snake years ago and just left it alone. I thought I might see it again since it was close to the house. Never saw it again.

[justletmein]

Gorgeous!

Speckled king snake. I have seen on in 30 years or so. They used to be pretty common in the Port O'Connor area.

There's still quite a few out on the island, we see them fairly regularly. About 6 weeks ago we showed up at fish camp to setup and 1st thing we always do is go de-snake the garage and pull the 4 wheelers out. There were two rattlesnakes and a gold speckled king snake in there. King was just chilling right next to the smaller rattler which I thought was weird. 2 of the 3 snakes died.

[BayouCat]

One of my favorite snakes to see around the house. Good for you for relocating it.