So it is warming up here in central Oklahoma -- 60 yesterday and 80s this week -- and yesterday I was raking leaves out of a flower bed when I scraped some with the rake and uncovered a nice little Dekay's snake, who flipped over and looked somewhat startled. Picked him up and he very gently tried to bury his head into the space between my thumb and palm as if to say "Hey, I am not quite ready but it'll be warm soon!" Released him back into the larger bed with plenty of leaves. Snakes should begin to be on the move in these latitudes very soon . . . now if I can just get a return visit from the Texas rat snake who perched on my front window ledge last summer! I expect he has wintered under the shed out back. The long dry winter is over . . .
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First snake of the spring
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I've found an amphibian or two but no snakes yet. Hoping this week, we'll be hitting 70 a few days.
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3.2 reticulated pythons
.1 corn snake
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i live in charleston,sc.it's been in the 80's here(50's-60's at night),for the last 2 weeks or so.i found my first snake of the year on easter,a nice healthy 4' black racer that grabbed me as soon as i grabbed it.my son's looking at me like i'm an idiot,while this racer is just chewing the hell out of me,biting my wrist,hand,thumb,forearm,pretty much everything within it's reach.after i let it go,my boy says"dad,why did you pick that mean
snake up?" force of habit,boy.force of habit.
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0.0.1 cb baby eastern mud (also ridiculously cute)
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