Two more rat snakes became vulture food today. Stoopid things go straight up the fencing (even chain link fence) then get themselves embroiled in the deer netting,,There they stay until I get out there and put a .22 in their little skulls. Cut them out of the deer netting and take the up to the road for the vultures and hoot owls to find. Sorry @CapricornFarm I'm not in the mood to relocate.
Well you gotta do what you feel is right. We get a couple each year in the bird netting over our strawberries.
Knock on wood, I haven't seen any snakes.....yet. Oh I know I'm not fooling myself. They are all over. We have rat snakes, black snakes, timber rattlers, cotton mouths, copper heads and garter snakes. Just to name a few. Usually we just see the garters and cast off skins in the field when the bigger snakes molt. There are water snakes in the ponds but so far, the only time I've seen a snake near the birds is when one of my young buff Orpingtons feasted on a little garter snake that had the bad judgement to go in their run.
Hey Cap! How ya feeling dear lady?
