age would help.....

black rats (and all) remember where to get food......the older they are the better they can achieve this..and they can remember what to eat at what times of the year.....and they remember in th spring especially.it is easier to go up into high bushes and trees and find bird nestlings....you figure...baby birds.(and eggs) usually more than one per nest and usually certain areas are high in bird density.....they know this and remember where to go.....and eat as many as they can....they digest fast and there is no need to actually go and rest to digest...just find them and eat eat eat.....

I know they remember......Nixon Park ranger....lady said the black rats there at times have to be removed due to the fact that they are seen going from bird house to bird house and when taken away to the park extremes they find their way back and still go from box to box....she says ...of course the park likes snakes and actually has reptile displays and reptile weekends every year...they also have a duty to the birds...so from time to time certain ratsnakes must be removed...to help the birds....(this was a story she told )....


(as another story...she also says that every year alot of people bring in snakes...dead and alive and ask about the copperhead they found,....and not once has anyone actually brought in a copperhead)......just another note for kicks....

>...ratsnakes...because they are one of the only snakes big enough to actually eat an adult rat?......(in the east)....

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two digit morphs...who woulda thunk it.......

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