Texas brown snake
harmless & beneficial

+1. Nice picture.

Thank you. I saved it from a swimming pool. It was swimming around looking for a way out.

Good job. Those brown snakes eat the living hell out of the mice populations. They're one of the best snakes to have around.

Purty snake. Glad you didn't kill it.

I find newly born Texas brown snakes every year when I clean up leaves around my yard. Funny, I don't think I have ever seen momma or poppa hanging around. They usually don't get very large, eating a diet of mainly worms and insect larvae.

No nasty attitude, either, though an adult would likely act a little testy if cornered.

Great to let them go . . . so they don't go the way of the garter snakes and horny toads of my youth.

Brad

This one actually had a bad attitude. Coiled up and was striking after i set it down

It's a good scare tactic. Their mouths can't open wide enough to actually bite. But they will strike like crazy. Good save.

Good snake

I'd let it go under my deck

i like beneficial snkes-wait a minute, they are all beneficial!!

sorry,the only good snake is............

a live one so it can do its job and keep rats out. They are pretty useless if they're dead