My Mother has a black snake in her garden! (I'm jealous!)

My Mother called today to tell me she found a large black snake in her garden. She wasn't sure what kind of snake it was and when she got a broom to shoo it away it was gone!

She lives in Pinehurst, NC. I think it was a black racer, black rat or perhaps a pine snake. Does anyone else have any ideas? I asked her to get a picture if she sees it again. (Actually, I asked her to catch it, but that's NOT going to happen! LOL)

I used to have a very cool website bookmarked that listed all of the snakes of a state with pictures. Does anyone have a site like that bookmarked?

Thanks all!

it was probably a black rat snake, but here's a sight if you would like to look it up.

http://www.bio.davidson.edu/Biology/herpcons/herpcons.html

Thank you!

It was most surely a black ratsnake, I caught 3 of them in my yard so far this year.

Cool thanks Tim