went out to collect the last of the daily eggs and almost reached into the nest box where said snake was coiled up sort of...got the rake and dragged him out and he had a bulge in the middle...grounds for divorce...I did not know what he had eaten as there were several options...ping pong balls, eggs, baby silkies...I keep a knife out there and after dispatching snake with a brick, I made three snakes out of him in an effort to determine what he had in him...thankfully it was a ping pong ball...the hens grabbed the pieces and ran away with them...did not check his ID...did not care...he can not have my eggs or my baby birds...and he would be back if the ping pong ball did not kill him...
