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Remember a week or two ago when I said I hoped this wouldn’t turn into Summer of the Snake?

Well, I’m pretty sure it’s going to be Summer of the Snake. So far it’s definitely been Springtime of the Snake. Maybe after spring the snakes hide better or something?

I’ve never seen so many snakes before. And I’ve lived next to this creek for at least 25 years. I’ve seen more snakes in the last 5 weeks than I’ve seen in the last two decades combined.

Of course, not all the snakes I’ve seen this year have been in our creek. Some have been at the park. Still, last summer when I was hanging out in the creek and the park taking 10,000 pictures of dragonflies I only saw two snakes. Which, honestly, seemed like a miracle at the time.

I’ve never been a huge fan of snakes. I know that they keep down the pesty animal situation. But that’s where my knowledge stops. I have no idea if they are territorial, where they do it, which ones lay eggs/live birth (if any), and I don’t really know what snake I’m looking at when I’m faced with one. So I just take their picture. I certainly don’t poke them with a stick. Mostly becuse I don’t have a stick. But also because I have this fear that if I poked it with a stick it would somehow get the stick away from me and be all, “Boosh! How you like it?!” and it would poke me back, much harder than I poked it.

I’ve been lucky to not come across any rattlesnakes. I don’t want to see them. or hear them.

I’ve seen a couple of moccasins (it may have been the same one just on different days. If so, it’s eating well.) and I will say that they are a bit more fearless than the water snakes. The water snakes, as soon as they see me, they slither away and hide. The moccasin not so much.

The more snakes I see the more I’ll learn about them. So there’s that.

Seeing a snake still creeps me out, but now, on my morning walks when I don’t see a snake I’m relieved and disappointed at the same time.

Here’s a good site about snakes in Alabama.

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