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Wildlife

Since doing away will all my grass and growing mostly for wildlife, I was surprised to see this Black Rat snake in my yard. Not too big, about 60cm, but they can eat a rat just the same as the much bigger one I took a picture of on the Appalachian Trail

The first two pics from my yard and then the monster on the AT, which was more like 215cm, just over 7ft.



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roadrunner said:
Since doing away will all my grass and growing mostly for wildlife, I was surprised to see this Black Rat snake in my yard. Not too big, about 60cm, but they can eat a rat just the same as the much bigger one I took a picture of on the Appalachian Trail

The first two pics from my yard and then the monster on the AT, which was more like 215cm, just over 7ft.



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I think these display some brilliant photography ! Apart from a very near miss with a small brown in Queensland one day, which was just a bit scary, I think these are beautiful creatures. I was lucky enough to be able to handle a couple of them myself - on one occasion when visiting a sanctuary in Australia, and another back here in England, when one of my camping customers brought his pet snake to stay for a while 🙂(y)
PS Snakes don't feel at all slippery or slimy, but soft like velvet!
 
I have a funny story about a snake.
In my back yard in S. Florida I had a grey snake about 4-5' long. I watched it one day rise up and as it came down towards the ground it scorkscrewed it's body and plunged itself into the sand. Gone below ground.

I saw it do this is two places in the yard, one near the septic tank in the back yard. When the men came to pump out the tank there was one big guy who was like the foreman who had 4 young guys with shovels with him.

So, knowing they were near the snake's area I told them there was a grey snake living under ground there and if they started digging they could disturb him and cause him to come above ground.

The foreman was leaning on my house the whole time that I was explaining this, rolling his eyes, snikkering, and treating me like I was some nut !!

I went inside and, it wasn't 5 minutes later I heard: "Whoop !! Whoop!! Whoop !!." I came outside right away and here was the foreman, white as a ghost, shaking his leg in the air !! He said to me: "Lady, if that snake didn't come out of my pantleg I was going to drop my drawers right here in front of you !!"

The four guys with the shovels were laughing hysterically !! Bent over laughing !! I said to the foreman: "Ah hah !! You didn't believe me, did ya? Well then, the next time someone takes time outta their day to alert you to the presence of a snake in the ground, you're going to listen, aren't you ? !!"

He replied: "Yes Ma'm !! Yes, Ma'm !! 😂😂😂
 
My moth hatched out today 🙂

I found a chrysalis in the compost in the autumn and put it on one of the flower pots inside.

Noticed something up in the corner of the room today...

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I carefully put him into the cactus house and put a shallow dish of sugar water next to him.

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He stayed there all afternoon so I think he's only just hatched out.

He's an Angle Shades Moth 🙂

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