Many people consider any snake in the water as being a 'water moccasin', which isn't true. There are a few poisonous snakes in this area, not many luckily. IIRC, when I checked it out a few years ago, there were three poisonous species in Northern Virginia. I found a pretty good link, if y'all wanna check it out:
http://fwie.fw.vt.edu/VHS/snakes_of_virginia.htm
Pretty much all the species I've seen in this area have already been listed. Now that I'm living in Prince William County, I see some other ones. Driving down an old country road at 3:00am one night, I spotted a HUGE fox, so big it took me a second to identify it as a fox. By far the biggest one I've ever seen.
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