Don't know what kind* of snake this is, but I'd temporarily forgotten I took this photo when I posted the previous snake photos. Definitely not poisonous, so I didn't mind getting a little bit closer to it.
You can see a reporter named Chuck Dovish, or somebody, holding one of these snakes in the AETN video about the Bayou Bartholomew Trail, which is where I was when I took the photo. I don't see this type of snake out there very often. Mostly see cottonmouths and nonpoisonous water snakes that look like cottonmouths, and of course the occasional copperhead. Never have seen a rattler on or near the trail. Or anywhere in Southeast Arkansas for that matter.
*Update: Apparently this is a Mud Snake.
*Update: Apparently this is a Mud Snake.
