The chatter about the escaped cobra in NYC reminds me that we saw our first snake of the season a couple of days ago. It was pencil-thin, poking its head out of a corner of the siding on our porch. Probably another rat snake. We seem to have a lot of those around here. (Four or five have gotten stuck in the weird, clear caulk around the outside edges of our windows-- mostly the bay window and small kitchen sink window.)
Actually, I just remembered that this wasn't the first snake of the season, because Donald found another small rat or corn snake when he was moving things out of the shed a couple of weeks ago! So this makes number two. Still, I'd much rather have multiple rat snakes wandering around the yard than a single moccasin. (Grandpa has already seen the first one of those for the year, too, down at the pond.)
...This has been the Snakes-to-Date report for March 2011. ;o)
