If snakes give you the "willies", stop reading. But this one is harmless and eats only mice and moles...
So I went out to get my mail today, and saw this sitting on the driveway. I looked at it for a while. I wasn't sure if it was alive or not. I mean, it was "LUMPY".
While I was looking at it, a guy drove past and then backed up and got out of his car with a camera. We considered it. I said it wasn't dangerous because it wasn't a viper. I thought it is a black snake. He said he just kills any snake he sees and I said they are rather beneficial (though I sure wouldn't want to step in on by surprise). Even non-venomous snakes have teeth.
But it wasn't moving and it looked odd (lumpy). The other guy said, he didn't think it was dead becuase its head was up (that was a really good observation I had missed).
So after taking a couple pictures each, I tapped its tail with my newspaper . It twitched! After another tap, it started slithering away, and went up a TREE!
I was working under a tree once and felt a slight stinky spray. I looked around and saw nothing. Then a snake (just like this one) fell onto the ground right next to me. HEY, IT PEED ON ME!
But I just shoved it with my boot and watched it slither away. Well, it was no threat to the cats or me, so I admired it. Snakes are fascinating. There are few creatures who have completely unique ways of moving around. Bipedal humans, kangaroos, and snakes...
Here is the snake climbing up in a small tree...
It wasn't there 15 minutes later, so I suppose it was a lot more worried about ME than I was of it.
May it catch many mice and moles... Live long and eat well, black snake!
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Thursday, May 31, 2018
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