Hopefully, We Won't Have Anymore Visitors.

From here on out the snake that was here yesterday will be referred to as "the visitor". In a scary turn of events, it appears that a member of "the visitors" family was looking for him this morning. My next door neighbor walked out his back door to go for his morning jog & found a 27" replica of "the visitor". He had an unfortunate (for him) incident with Cliff's shovel.  On a happier note & I when I say happier I mean "not nearly as scary as we first thought but still not good at all", we don't think "the visitor" is a water moccasin. After doing lots of research (Dean, not me), he found this

The first pic is a Mississippi Green Water Snake. The second pic is our visitor. They look a lot alike. It says he can be 16-50 inches long. Good thing Dean killed him because as freaked out as I was over the 36 inch one, 50 would drive me to drink, A LOT.

Apparently, these type of snakes like "permanent bodies of water, especially in open country & around open cypress lakes & marshes". Um, ok. I live in Baton Rouge, in a subdivision, in the middle of the city. I have no lake or marsh. I really hope these visitors haven't mistaken my pool for a "permanent body of water". That wouldn't be good. Here's another fun fact. They give birth to 8-34 baby snakes. Do you know what that means?? It means that there are AT LEAST 6 more somewhere out there. I'm concentrating on the the 8 & not so much the 34. I'm hoping they have some sort of sixth sense & know of the demise of their family & will leave the area immediately.

I'm linking to Outdoor Wednesday hoping that someone can positively I.D. "the visitor".

http://asoutherndaydreamer.blogspot.com/2010/06/62-outdoor-wednesday-73.html