It's a timber rattlesnake.

@JimG I did not see what I would recognize as rattles on its tail.

@dalefvictor if I could post a video, you'd hear them.

Enlarge photo one. They're there.

@JimG they sure are. These things scare me greatly.

@dalefvictor this snake never attempted to strike me. Even when I grabbed her tail she only tried to crawl away.

@JimG I didn't know they came in such dark colors. All the ones I've seen have been shades of brown. That's pretty cool.

@OpposingOpposum This is a timber rattlesnake. I've seen a lot of yellow phase from bright yellow to dull brown, hundreds of black phase from charcoal to jet black, and even one olive phase (grey-green). That ones posted somewhere in this group I think.

@JimG I probably saw it and didn't realize what it was.

@OpposingOpposum here's my first post in this group.

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i do too.