I enjoy boids but have little knowlege of hots, thus my questions. I find copperheads in my yard most years, not a lot, usualy 1 or 2 a year, 6 last yr, 3 this year. I normaly catch them and release them 3 or 4 miles from home away from houses.Question #1 How oriented are they to thier place of hibernation, in other words is 3 or 4 miles keeping them from coming back? I caught one while ago that is going to end up a lot farther from home as in a little while I am leaving to go about 150 miles from home. I am concerned as this particular snake is very thin. Will it find a place to hibernate? I always understood copperheads to be so high strung that they frequently will not eat in captivity. The snake in question is so thin I offered it a hopper mouse, just dropped it in the coffee container with the snake, I peaked in a minute later and the mouse was dead, a couple of minutes later only back feet and tail were visable so I offered a second mouse, it killed the second mouse but when I checked a little later it had regugetated the first mouse and swallowed the second, then appeared to want to reswallow the first. This all seems strange to me. Any comments or info would be greatly appreciated.



Claude

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