Hi There...I'm not an expert or anything but I think that might be a common gopher snake?? I seem to remember snakes looking like this one in my area as a kid and that was what Dad called them.

Cheers! Mike

No worries. Your snake is an Eastern Garter Snake. It's checkers are more pronounced than is typical on the modal Eastern Garter and the stripes are less well-defined than is typical but it is in fact a garter snake.

The lack of well defined stripes and the checkered pattern does kind of give it that gopher snake look.

Thanks, just saw it again same place. He got a big frog. I just couldn't stand to watch.