Beautiful photos all. Keep them coming, please.

Skip, I won't dispute you if you say that's a cottonmouth, but ya'll must have some kind of subspecies down there I've never seen. I've been around moccasins and rattlers all my life and, though I've seen moccasins in slightly differing color phases, I've never seen one that comes that close to looking like a rattler. Ordinarily, too, a moccasin at that distance will have it's mouth open showing you why it got it's name, Cottonmouth.
Gorgeous photos, Skip.

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