Coluber constrictor

Yes. It's true. In my 4 years of tromping around the range, I had yet to come across these guys despite intensive searches. We come across their cousins, Masticophis lateralis lateralis fairly regularly, but, as nature likes to play it, today as I was out checking tad traps, completely unexpectedly, I came across my first one ever on the range. A young juvenile/yearling that was off like a shot when it spotted me. Thank you, herp gods.