Northern Pine Snake

Has irregular black to dark brown blotches on a white, cream, yellow, or light gray background body color.
They mainly live in Alabama, Georgia and South Carolina
They only have scattered occurrences in Tennessee, southern Kentucky, western Virginia, and New Jersey.
The pine snake is a secretive, burrowing species.
They spend much of their time in abandoned animal burrows or burrows of their own construction dug under old stumps or similar cover
They spend winters in deep underground burrows and summers in shallower underground dens.
Observations have been noted from April-October.
The pine snake is nonvenomous and harmless to humans.
They primarily eat small mammals, lizards, birds, and their eggs.
In New Jersey, predators include red fox (Vulpes fulva), striped skunk (Mephitis mephitis), and short-tailed shrew (Blarina brevicauda), and humans. Both foxes and skunks will dig up the pine snake nests.
If you surprise a Northern pine snake, it may hiss loudly and vibrate its tail at you, but will otherwise do you no harm. It will just want to get away from you

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