Here is some info on cotton mouths and water snakes that may help you out. http://ufwildlife.ifas.ufl.edu/water...mparison.shtml
Poisonous snakes will float on top of the water were non poisonous snakes won't float there whole body out of the water most of the time you will see the head and some times the top of there back is out of the water a little.
With that being said though leave them be and let nature do it's thing , The run in's i have had with poisonous snakes is if i didn't bother them they had no intress in me what so ever and would avoid me unless i snuck up on one like i did squirrel hunting one year ( I allways were boots while hunting squirrels for this reason) and steped over a log and got struck in the back of my boot heel by a coper head man you would not believe how hard they strike it scared the crap out of me.. A couple of year ago i was at a lake were people were camping and living and had a timber rattler swim by me ( I was in my boat) and i no way to catch it and keep it were i could take to another part of the lake were no one was and release it so i had to shoot the snake It was headed for a well populated area were there was kids squirrels dogs cats and rabbits and until now i never said anything to any about it but I'm guesing the snake was almost 6 foot long.. here is a you tube vid of a cotton mouth you can see how much of his body is out of the water http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_S0G71e9JEA
One last edit here . This is a water snake you can see how deep in the water his body is..http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AEHMFQh4uw4
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