This is a first! Not only has this been the warmest December on record here in Beacon Falls, CT, but it's the first time that I've ever seen a snake on Christmas Eve!
I was taking my daily 3 mile (round trip) walk to the Post Office, and on my way back, just before crossing a foot bridge that goes over a brook, I happened to look down and saw this:
I believe that it's just a common water snake (any herpetologists out there?) It looked to be about 2 feet long. It just froze, and let me take its picture for about 4 minutes, then just slithered away, up and over the bank, and down towards the brook, and disappeared.
Back in December of 1980, it was 10 degrees BELOW zero on Christmas eve! Never thought I'd live to see a snake out and about at this time of the year!
I was taking my daily 3 mile (round trip) walk to the Post Office, and on my way back, just before crossing a foot bridge that goes over a brook, I happened to look down and saw this:
I believe that it's just a common water snake (any herpetologists out there?) It looked to be about 2 feet long. It just froze, and let me take its picture for about 4 minutes, then just slithered away, up and over the bank, and down towards the brook, and disappeared.
Back in December of 1980, it was 10 degrees BELOW zero on Christmas eve! Never thought I'd live to see a snake out and about at this time of the year!