What's with snakes this year? We've seen plenty!
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| Our most common snake is the black rat snake. We see several shed skins every year, and they live in holes below a concrete pad at the back of the house. This one was at least 5 ft (1.5 m) long. They love to eat mice, and we have plenty of those! |
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| A closer look at the front end. |
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| The ring-necked snake is a small snake. This is a large one at about 18 inches (45 cm) long. |
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| A closer look at the head and its namesake neck ring. |
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| The middle/southern Appalachians have only two venomous snakes. This is the timber rattlesnake, easily identified by its rattles and triangular pit-viper head. The other local venomous snake is the copperhead, last seen and noted in a previous blog post. |
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