local wildlife
May. 12th, 2006 01:49 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
quietannThere are things to be said for living in the semi-rural suburbs...
It is in a cedar tree. It looks like a koosh ball and is about that size.
One of the dawn's early light turkeys from last week:
There is a gravel pile with a tarp over it near the barn. We needed some gravel today, and when we threw back the tarp we found this:
It turns out that some mother garter snake decided that this would be a good place for baby snakes, and there were at least 6 of them, maybe more. They usually burrowed into the gravel pretty quickly, but I did get to hold one:
There are a lot of bugs and other good snake food in the gravel, and it's well protected. I went back later to see if I could hold another snake, but there was only one out, and it got *very* annoyed when I picked it up.
It is in a cedar tree. It looks like a koosh ball and is about that size.
One of the dawn's early light turkeys from last week:
There is a gravel pile with a tarp over it near the barn. We needed some gravel today, and when we threw back the tarp we found this:
It turns out that some mother garter snake decided that this would be a good place for baby snakes, and there were at least 6 of them, maybe more. They usually burrowed into the gravel pretty quickly, but I did get to hold one:
There are a lot of bugs and other good snake food in the gravel, and it's well protected. I went back later to see if I could hold another snake, but there was only one out, and it got *very* annoyed when I picked it up.
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Date: 2006-05-12 06:15 pm (UTC)http://www.gpnc.org/eastern.htm
which has something that looks quite similar.