Gye Greene's Thoughts

Gye Greene's Thoughts (w/ apologies to The Smithereens and their similarly-titled album!)

Tuesday, December 21, 2010

Occasional snake

There's a local snake called a carpet snake -- a type of python -- that we **very** occasionally see around the place. I've seen one about once every two years.

My next-door brother-in-law dropped off the riding mower, as our lawn was getting pretty shaggy: it's been raining nearly every day, so hard to get a chance to mow -- but today was a nice sunny day. After parking it in our back yard, he knocked on our front door and asked if I wanted him to move a snake. I told him to just leave it be.

Using some masking tape and spray paint, I quick-like whipped up a measuring stick (dunno the technical term) like archeologists use: each stripe is 10cm; all ten stripes equal a metre.

Thus, the snake is around six feet long. Probably more -- it's hard to tell, what with its curvy-ness.

I laid the tip of the sizing stick next to the tail of the snake, as a size reference, and took some snapshots.

If you want, you can click the photos to enlarge them.




As you can see, it's kinda close to the house.

--GG

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At December 25, 2010 8:09 AM, Anonymous Giovanna said...

Pretty cool! That was nice of you to not move it, to allow it to catch some rays and do its thing! I would much prefer big snakes to big spiders.
What do carpet boas eat?

 
At December 27, 2010 11:57 PM, Blogger Gye Greene said...

Not sure what they eat -- but presumably the typical constrictor-type things: mice and rats and such. Frogs, toads...


--GG

 

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