More Snakes

Things are finally drying out after a week of rain and powerful storms.

Most of my veggie plants are showing the wear and tear of too much water and no sun. Leaves are yellow and a few tomato plants have withered away and died.  Made me sad to see how many plants just faded away.

Just as I was about to go into my gardening shed and get some tools, I stepped on a big, thick snake.

We both screamed and ran in opposite directions.

After the initial surprise wore off, I went back, opened the shed door and there he was curled up in the corner by the door....plus a few of his other "friends" laying in the sunshine near my bale of straw.

One of them left a gift of a freshly shed snake skin on top of my water cup.

Within the first hour I had counted, and photographed 11 snakes in various positions in DRY, sunny areas around my garden.   They too had been waterlogged and bruised by hailstones and flying debris during the 2 powerful storms that ripped through here.

All the tired snakes were garter snakes.  I haven't seen the big mother milk snake today, but am sure I will.

Several of the snakes never moved while I replanted a few veggies and dug trenches to move the next deluge of water away from th garden shed.

They all seem healthy and well fed.

I guess that they are feeding on bugs, mice and other delectables they are finding around the edges of the garden, farm and coop.

I may start marking them with a bit of nail polish to see if I am seeing the same ones.  And of course I will have to name them.

This one I named Makemescream.  Its an old Indian name....

 

Do you have any resident snakes on your property?

Got any you named?

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