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I had finished taking a break from feeding the critters and was walking back to the building for another stint, when I spotted something in the path. Darn! A corn snake. Looks like one of the Silver Queen Ghosts I released a month or two ago. Looking fat and sassy, so I guess he's doing OK. I brought him back inside to see if maybe he's changed his tune about eating pinky mice after being out on his own for a while.

But here's the odd part. Today's date is December 10th. Time was 9:45 PM and it was 54 degrees out with a light drizzling rain.

Who would ever figure this would be a good time to find a baby corn snake crawling about?
 
aww he missed you how sweet

He was probably begging you to take him back
"pleeeease Rich I'm freeking cold" and you have all the good lady snakes, all these wild ladies scare me to death...
 
If I were a snake, I'd be having a brumation party for one. Heck, I'd like to do it now, and I'm not a snake!

I know that anerys survive in the wild, but woudn't a silver queen be too light to survive? Just curious.

As for a reply to your statement, I'm with MissyMonkey. It was probably thinking, "Rich hand feeds me... Rich provides me with a nice piece of lavender tail... I can't find any corns out here that look half as good as Rich's... Please Daddy, take me back, I'm feeding my tail off! Put me over one of those lovely pieces of heat tape!"
 
uhmm making me think??? ~~~~~:~

Living here in New England the only corn snakes about are in warm tanks in (hopefully) loving homes. I've had my friends who live in Florida share that they shoo away corn snakes that are resting in bushes or branches but I would like to know where they live. Like do they live in holes in the ground like New England snakes do or do they just find a cozy corner and claim space?:confused: Where do corn snakes live? Sam ~~~~~~:~
 
Field sides

I've heard the best place to find corns is the natural line between fields and woods. it makes sence too expecialy in old fields where rock fence rows are still around. As i live in pa i've not seen a wild one, but this year i'm taking a week vacation to central nc to do some reasearch. i'll fill you in then.
 
Sounds like the BEST place to go herping in search of corn snakes is in Rich's yard! How about it Rich? Will $50 per night get me a pass to "Cornsnake Land?" I promise to replace each keeper corn I take with a normal hatchling of mine just to . . .uh . . .um . . .keep the ecological balances in order . . .yeah that's it!

Sound good to you, Rich?


:cool:
 
Well, one year I released a female and she brought her boyfriend home to introduce to us. No lie. We would see her around every few days and we would feed her. She would actually follow us around expecting a meal. I guess she told the boyfriend about that and he came around to check us out. We fed him too, but the gigolo left her in the family way and never came back.

We finally had to catch her and put her back inside. She had no fear of anything and would often just wander up and down in the driveway. Connie and I were worried to death that the UPS man would run over her one day. So I guess we have to keep her until she dies.

Oh yeah, she's het for Lavender, so probably some of her babies are out there somewhere.

One year we released a blotched king and she hung around for the longest time as well. It was kind of funny, because when we go on trips to do out shows, a friend of ours would stop by all of the time to check on the place while we are gone. When we came back one time, he asked me if I knew about the guard snake we had. He said he walked up to the house and saw this snake raised up staring at him from underneath the pampas grass. Scared the beejeesus out of him! Yeah, we used to feed her too, and she learned to recognize people as the bringer of food. I'll bet any burglar coming up to the house would have had a heart attack if that snake started going after him.
 
I might have a new distance record

I recently had a young male motley escape. I was quite worried, he had never eaten live food and my house is very cool and dry. I put out water dishes and tape and bottle traps (they ALWAYS work!) and 10 days later still hadn't caught the young snake. I was sure it must have gotten outside. Then my girlfriend called me (she lives 30 miles away) to tell me she was unpacking boxes and there was a snake in one! Sure enough, my little motley. He was very dehydrated, and refuses food so far, but I feel pretty confident I can bring him around.
 
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