[masraum]

Cool! We have a lot of copperheads around here. Well, I've seen 5-10 in the past almost 2 years since we moved. A few of those were when we started moving old piles of wood and crap out away from the house. I think all of the copperheads that I've seen have been have been ~14-24". We also have "broadbanded copperheads," agkistrodon laticinctus vs the "eastern copperhead," agkistrodon contortrix.

Snakes can have some pretty extreme variations in their patterns and coloring. Most of the time they look similar, but sometimes you can have huge variation of pattern. It looks like that's what you've got here.

For instance.

Here's a Texas Coral snake (melanistic)


This is also a Texas Coral snake (albino)


This is also a Texas Coral snake (anerythristic)


Here's an Eastern Coral snake from south Florida


Here's another Eastern Coral snake with an aberrant pattern