Friday Connie and I came home from a trip up to the Washington D.C. area and were met with heavy rain here in north Florida. Towards evening we had to run out to the post office, and along the way saw two corn snakes on the road. Both normal colored, but one was DOR, unfortunately. The other I picked up and moved over to the side of the road. He didn't seem real concerned about being handled, and we didn't see him flattened on the road when we came back from the post office. Both were about 3 ft. long.
Then on Saturday we took a walk along out nature trail and spotted a small green snake (about 18 inches long) crossing the path in front of us.
The gopher tortoise burrows are all showing signs of activity, but we haven't actually seen any of them wandering about yet. Did spot a box turtle a week or so ago, and of course the lizards are always running around. But haven't seen our family of skinks yet.
It's raining pretty hard right now, so I suspect snake will be on the move on the roads again this evening. Perhaps I should be lugging around my camcorder on those walks Connie and I take. I imagine we'll run across a diamondback or coral snake shortly, as there seems to be a healthy population of both of them around here from evidence we have seen in the past. I ran into a black racer a couple of weeks ago that acted like it had never seen a human being before. He was a bit nervous but allowed me to get close enough that I could have grabbed him with my hands had I wanted to. I just told him to stay away from the house where our skinks and other lizards live and shooed him away. Hmm, maybe he didn't listen to me and that explains why I haven't seen the skinks yet....
Surprisingly enough the mosquito population isn't all that bad around here now. I would have thought with the rains we've been getting that it would be REALLY bad out there. But the yellow fly season will soon be here, and those are pretty nasty buggers that try hard to ruin a walk outside.
Then on Saturday we took a walk along out nature trail and spotted a small green snake (about 18 inches long) crossing the path in front of us.
The gopher tortoise burrows are all showing signs of activity, but we haven't actually seen any of them wandering about yet. Did spot a box turtle a week or so ago, and of course the lizards are always running around. But haven't seen our family of skinks yet.
It's raining pretty hard right now, so I suspect snake will be on the move on the roads again this evening. Perhaps I should be lugging around my camcorder on those walks Connie and I take. I imagine we'll run across a diamondback or coral snake shortly, as there seems to be a healthy population of both of them around here from evidence we have seen in the past. I ran into a black racer a couple of weeks ago that acted like it had never seen a human being before. He was a bit nervous but allowed me to get close enough that I could have grabbed him with my hands had I wanted to. I just told him to stay away from the house where our skinks and other lizards live and shooed him away. Hmm, maybe he didn't listen to me and that explains why I haven't seen the skinks yet....
Surprisingly enough the mosquito population isn't all that bad around here now. I would have thought with the rains we've been getting that it would be REALLY bad out there. But the yellow fly season will soon be here, and those are pretty nasty buggers that try hard to ruin a walk outside.
