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I like finding the Garder Snake as well as the King snake in my flowerbed and around the yard. I take my photo and move on. I know their benefits to have them around.
Love seeing them in my yard. I just wish the cat would stop bringing them into the garage. They're pretty smart, play dead until she's bored, then take off.
How about a snake in an observatory? I'm a physics professor and we have a small observatory on the edge of campus. EVERY spring we have to clean up mouse poop from every horizontal surface in the place, and we always see a few live mice scurrying around. This year we were surprised to see a snake skin coiled around the doorknob mechanism, *inside* the door! Then the next visits out, we have seen a nice little olive-colored garter snake sunning himself at the doorway. We found some dead, dessicated mice on our first clean-up visit, but no live ones so far. So long as the shy snake stays outside while we're inside, we are happy to have him there, keeping the mouse population in check. We need a good nickname for him -- maybe Galileo??
I live near Cumberland Gap TN. We have plenty of snakes in our area, rattlesnake, copperhead, king snakes, garter snakes, etc. I went in my bathroom one early October day and found a baby king snake laying next to the toilet. I was startled to say the least.
My husband caught it with a pair of hemostats and put it in a peanut butter jar till we identified it. Then he released it in a barn.
We think it came up past the pipes under the sink. Needless to say the space around the pipe is now sealed tight.
LOL. We have one in our crawl. Everytime the Orkin man comes, he lets us know it's there. I love them, we see them out in our yard, and I count my blessings.
LOL. We have one in our crawl. Everytime the Orkin man comes, he lets us know it's there. I love them, we see them out in our yard, and I count my blessings.
"A garden with a snake is a happy garden" has been my reply to snake-phobes for many years.
Here in DE (zone 7a) I am blessed to have garter snakes living in the formerly neglected property my son purchased 4 yrs. ago. They often "greet" me as I work to renew the garden & landscape.
My former garden in zone 9 rewarded me with a beautiful Indigo Snake which, when startled from his zamia foliage nest, slithered into the sun & revealed his magnificent blue iridescence. Corn snakes were more common, & most welcome, in that tropical Florida Keys garden which I was blessed to be able to develop & enjoy for more than 20 years.
"A garden with a snake is a happy garden" has been my reply to snake-phobes for many years.
Here in DE (zone 7a) I am blessed to have garter snakes living in the formerly neglected property my son purchased 4 yrs. ago. They often "greet" me as I work to renew the garden & landscape.
My former garden in zone 9 rewarded me with a beautiful Indigo Snake which, when startled from his zamia foliage nest, slithered into the sun & revealed his magnificent blue iridescence. Corn snakes were more common, & most welcome, in that tropical Florida Keys garden which I was blessed to be able to develop & enjoy for more than 20 years.
Here in the arid southwest (I live in Rio Rancho., NM), it’s getting to be a rarity to see a garter snake or toad in the yard due to years of drought. So it was a pleasant surprise to see a snake shooting through the yard fauna recently. I’m down to one little old terrier so I think it should be safe. My deceased Jack Russel and another terrier mix would kill anything that moved. It would really upset me as I wanted them to be a part of my little eco system. Hopefully some toads will join again soon.
Has a back yard garden. One night I had a dream that I was bitten. The next day I was bitten by a copperhead. I suspect it may have crawled into my bed in the wee hours of the morning. But I was picking weeds in the garden that day, and it is so much more likely it have biten me there. Never saw or felt a thing.
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