I'm a naturalist at a nature center in Southeastern CT. We had a landscaper bring in a baby milk snake unearthed during construction. The snake was brought to us to identify & because they were afriad it was a copperhead **sigh** (we get that all the time). Because of the ongoing contrsuction activity at the site-release there is not possible. We have plenty of suitable habitat to release the animal at our sanctuary-but here is my concern. We are already into hard frosts here-temps tonight will be down below freezing. So here's the dilemma-if released will this baby have the time to find a suitable hibernaculum. Keeping a healthy animal goes against all of my instincts, but releasing one to a freezing death doesn't sit well either.
Any thoughts??
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Baby Milk Rescued- To Release or Not to Release
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This nature center wouldnt happen to be the one in westport with the rat snake and copperhead would it?
sure enough
I can remember finding a baby while deer hunting, just stuck it in my pocket and forgot about it for the day. At the end of the day he was still there all toasty warm. They are more resilient to cold than we think, just watch out for the freezing temps,Jeff
Snake was released this past weekend. Temp. had moderated a bit. We have some good woodchip piles, nice and warm as they bio-degrade, released it there. Thanks for the help.
