Dennis that black snake keys out to be an Indigo as already mentioned the eye stripe is inherit to the indigo and I thought for sure it would have been a black racer.. How it got in your neck of the woods is puzzling.. 2nd of course is a grass snake, 3rd a copper head with full belly and lastly a Texas/ Oklahoma rat snake.. Nice pictures BTW..So your saying what I'm calling a black snake is not a black snake?
Looks just like this one eating a rattler. I'm 100 percent in favor of gaining some education if it's not.
We have a lot of these around here too. They use the barbed wire fences to travel. Amazing to watch them.
Copperhead on the patio:
In the yard