FIELD GUIDE Make way for the feisty northern water snake By Don Lyman Globe Correspondent, Updated July 13, 2022, 3:43 p.m.

Before jumping into Rhode Island's refreshing lakes and rivers, you might want to look around for snakes. These bodies of ...

A Northern water snake (Nerodia sipedon) at the edge of a pond, photographed in Mount Kisco, NY. Many thanks to everyone in the comments who helped with the identification!

But they soon lose that color, so it won't help you identify adults. Northern water snakes, of course, are usually found around water. But copperheads can also be found in low, rocky areas near water.

See the video, which has accumulated more than 1,000 views, below. Michigan Department of Natural Resources believes the snake to be a northern water snake, based on the markings.

Unfortunately, the northern water snake is often confused with the water moccasin, better known as the cottonmouth, and is needlessly killed. Cottonmouths live no closer than southern Virginia.

HOPKINTON -- The 2 1/2-foot snake that chomped on a teen girl's toe and then dove into the lake at Hopkinton State Park Sunday was likely an angry "northern water snake," town and wildlife ...

Wehrle said he snapped about 140 photos before the snake jetted into some bushes with his meal. The Iowa DNR confirmed Thursday the animal as a Northern water snake, a non-venomous animal.