Mid-Atlantic Gardening: The birds are getting ready for spring!, 4 by Gitagal

Gitagal wrote:
Muddy--

I believe "Rat Snake" is just another name for Black Snake--aka--Milk snake"

NO! The one i saw was definitely striped the length of the snake.
I have seen a juvenile black snake once before--and it was brown....

I have also tracked behind a black snake in my garden for an hour--
taking pictures....Only one I have seen.
But--I have seen young snakes twicw now--not sure what they are after
Googling them just now.

This was in 2006.
It ended up that there were two of them--having a rendezvous.
In the 1st picture--I got too close to it and it did not like it--coiled up on me...

I was following this snake around for about an hour. Then--when THEY crawled
under my concrete front steps--I was freaking out--imagining a lot of snakes born there...
And--thinking they may find some way into my house through the cinder block foundation.

Brave--wasn;t I? g.