I think it's funny how they do that, rattling their little tails. It does make you step back and double check yourself for a second lol. I'm glad to see the black snakes around though, even when I have babies outside. They keep the rattlers and copperheads away. Those i want nothing to do with. One of our neighbors had a rattle snake in their garden a year or so ago. I didn't know we had them around here before then.
My husband always told me to never run over a snake if it can be avoided because it could get flipped up into the underside of the car and find its way IN to the car. Not sure how true that is but I don't risk it.
I love bats also. There's a state park around here that my mom used to take us to a kids to swim and play. If we were there late, we would walk down to this old abandoned church to see the bats come out. It's a protected site now since its a huge bat nesting site with thousands of them. We used to stand in the graveyard behind the church, on top of a tomb stone, holding on to the branch of a tree and they would fly out of the church and get within inches of us and serve really quick. We thought it was the coolest thing ever. I want to take my kids there but we live over am hour away now and I think they'd be afraid of the old graveyard at night lol.
