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We went out to the Reed Creek Nature Center to learn what you need to do if you come across a snake. Corn snakes, like many native snakes, feed on small rodents, birds and other snakes.

And like most other venomous snakes in South Carolina, copperheads have yellow eyes with black vertical and elliptical pupils. Corn Snake.