It's That Time of Year Again

[3KillerBs]

I found it before it found the open door.

Relocated to the very back edge of the property in the woods.

Big one. I didn't take time to measure it, but probably between 4-5 feet long.

Unfortunately, it will probably be back. Unless I can get permission from whoever owns the woodlands back there I can't move them any further.

 

[Brooks_]

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I found it before it found the open door.

Relocated to the very back edge of the property in the woods.

Big one. I didn't take time to measure it, but probably between 4-5 feet long.

Unfortunately, it will probably be back. Unless I can get permission from whoever owns the woodlands back there I can't move them any further.

I'm no good at ID'ing. What kind?

 

[3KillerBs]

I'm no good at ID'ing. What kind?

Either a Black Rat Snake or a Black Racer. I'm fuzzy on telling them apart.

I was able to just walk up and pick it up in my gloved hands.

 

[Brooks_]

Either a Black Rat Snake or a Black Racer. I'm fuzzy on telling them apart.

I was able to just walk up and pick it up in my gloved hands.

Rat. I think? Racers are white under the chin only.

 

[3KillerBs]

Rat. I think? Racers are white under the chin only.

I wasn't actually looking, but I think it was a white belly.

I was more being annoyed at having to traipse through the woods in a skirt without bug spray than thinking about the snake itself.

 

[Sammster]

Either a Black Rat Snake or a Black Racer. I'm fuzzy on telling them apart.

I was able to just walk up and pick it up in my gloved hands.

Yikes! I could never be that brave

 

[3KillerBs]

Yikes! I could never be that brave

I'm not afraid of blacksnakes.

I wouldn't let one wrap around my neck, because they are constrictors, but as long as I'm wearing leather gloves the worst they can do is blop some horribly smelly poop on me.

This one wasn't even upset by being carried away.

 

[pennyJo1960]

Gloves make me braver I grew up in Wisconsin.
Know about snakes glad we just have racers out here.

 

[mowin]

Oh, hell no. I'm not good with snakes. 5' long? If I had a howitzer I'd still wish I had something bigger... Like a tank.

 

[3KillerBs]

Oh, hell no. I'm not good with snakes. 5' long? If I had a howitzer I'd still wish I had something bigger... Like a tank.

The old-timers say that if you've got blacksnakes they'll keep the copperheads away.

Black rat snakes are calm, peaceable creatures and if I didn't have chicks/eggs at risk I'd welcome them. A big girl like that could eat an AWESOME amount of mice if she would stay over by the storage shed instead of going for the chicken coop.