Thursday, July 5, 2012

Water Snake

Yesterday, I was taking my morning stroll and photographing some plants in my garden when I spied this gentlemen.  He laid quite still for me to take his picture.  Even though he looks frightening, he is not harmful, not venomous.  Its important that we protect the non-venomous snakes because they eat rodents and insects and also drive away poisonous snakes.  I couldn't get a look at the top of his head so I couldn't tell if it was diamond shaped, but did you know that a non-poisonous snake has round pupils while a poisonous snake has elongated pupils?

Til Tomorrow,
Tweetles

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