[stonyloam]

My wife thinks I am nuts! Every time she sees me with the camera she asks “don’t you have enough photos of those snakes yet? She is pretty tolerant though, and we both know that as soon as it warms up they will head for the hills till fall. I was a little worried about them because it is still below freezing out and they have been a more active than normal and I thought they might be getting a little dehydrated. I went to put more water in the little “bowl” and a really interesting thing happened (you have to remember that I have not had that much experience observing snakes up close). I added water to the bowl from my bike water bottle, and when I did all of the snakes (4) seemed to react to the sound of the water drops and looked right at me. I had to see how they would react to the water, so I dropped a couple of drops on them. One started shaking his head back and forth and flicking he tongue, then he drank a drop off his buddies back. Pretty cool! I just moved the bowl closer and it didn’t take long to find it. By the way the grass is really greener on the other side of the pond. I would love to have hedgehogs!