It's getting to be about that time where I need to go back and refresh myself on snake identification. This year I found an excellent South Carolina site in a Google search: http://www.snakesandfrogs.com/scra/snakes/brat.htm. The page linked here discusses the Eastern Rat Snake, which we encounter sometimes at the cabin.
In fact, two times last year we had rat snakes in the cabin...once in April, when an adult got into the laundry room: http://hawksbillcabin.blogspot.com/2008/04/snake-in-laundry.html, with the two highlight photos shown here as part of that post. As the post tells, I'd seen this snake twice before, once when it got into the laundry room on the evening of my Old Rag hike in November 2007, and once when Chris was doing a little demo project by the old shed in the back yard.I've also linked here to a second post that includes a photo of a dead juvenile in the road outside our place, although at the time I mistook it for another species. We had one of these youngters in the house last year as well, on the day we took a drive over to North Mountain Vineyards' Oktoberfest. http://hawksbillcabin.blogspot.com/2007/10/battle-of-species-2-snakes.html
Tomorrow, I'll highlight the carpenter bee episodes and my plan for dealing with them this year.
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