Residents in the Wakefield section of The Bronx reported a snake sighting in the neighborhood on Sunday afternoon, sharing a video of the reptile on social media.

 

A video of the snake posted to the Citizens’ App on Sunday, Oct 20, at around 3 p.m. reportedly shows the snake nesting in a hole in a wall located at 560 East 233rd Street. No further details as to why it was located there were immediately available.

 

Norwood News reached out to the NYPD, the NYC Animal Care Center, NYS Environmental Conservation Police Officers (ECOs) and The Bronx Zoo to ask if potentially they had been alerted to the incident. The NYPD responded, saying, “There is no complaint report on file based on the information provided in your inquiry.”

 

Meanwhile, a representatve for NYC ACC said, “We did not receive this snake,” and we were informed by NYS Department of Environmental Conservation (DEC) that the department was not called about the snake in question either. We were later informed by DEC that the snake in question appears to be a ball python (Python regius) which is not native to New York.

A SNAKE WAS reportedly seen nesting in a wall on Sunday, Oct. 20, 2024 at 560 East 233rd Street in the Wakefield section of The Bronx. Video courtesy of the Citzens’ App

As reported, there were no injuries reported on Saturday, Sept. 28, after police removed a snake from a shopping bag in the Olinville section of The Bronx.

 

That snake which had a reddish color was described by experts as a milk snake that is native to New York. The snake sighting in Wakefield was a different colored snake (as pictured above).

 

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P.S. A previous version of this story described a Honduran milk snake as being native to New York. In fact, we were informed by DEC that while eastern milk snakes are the subspecies of snakes that are native to New York (Lampropeltis triangulum triangulum), Honduran milk snakes are not. The story has since been corrected. We apologize for the miscommunication.