Mid-Atlantic Gardening: Ravenous Rabbits and Other Garden PestsPart #3. , 1 by Gitagal

Gitagal wrote:
Ric--

I found my first discarded snake skin when i worked for the "Grower"....14 greenhouses! Heaven for snakes! No wonder......I still have it in a huge Brandy Sniffer with all kinds of other dead bugs and moths and butterflies.....See! i am just a kid at heart.....

I had ONE black snake ONE year in my garden! It surprised me--I thought it was a branch from my tree laying in the grass....First I went--"EEEEK!".....Then i ran inside, grabbed my camera and followed it along for an hour.....
Took a lot of pictures.....then it climbed into my old Juniper bush and disappeared....I looked and looked--and then saw TWO heads.....They had a "rendezvous" up in that bush.....

When they both crawled down--they headed right for a hole in the concrete under my front steps! More "EEEEKKK!!!".....Like--what if they find some kind of opening and get into my house?????

Never saw either of them again! I had visions of a pile of snake babies the following year...freaking out about that too....

Now--especially last year, with all the rabbits we had--and all the Chipmunks running around--I wish I had the snake back!

Here's a confrontation picture----I guess I got a bit too close with my camera.....