2nd Line of Defense: Quick strikes, and a bite
3rd Line of Defense: Poop, and poop some more!
I feel it has been a good night when I have been bitten once and pooped on twice:) I went on a third night hike tonight, but ended up rescuing snakes from the middle of the road along a stretch of canal. The night air was a bit cool, so they were definitely trying to soak in some heat. Two fox snakes the length of my arm and a small garter snake were removed from the road before getting run over. The first one that bit me would have been dead had I not stopped to grab it. A car was just turning the corner to watch me snatch it up. He would have been mashed for sure. I don't blame him for biting me. I came out of nowhere and just grabbed him. I would have bit me too:)
Gorgeous Fox Snakes
A Small Common Garter Snake (pooped on me too)
Other Night Time Highlights
Two Rabid Wolf Spiders (Rabidosa rabida)
Leaf Footed Bug (Family Coreidae)
I was wondering where you had gotten off to!
ReplyDeleteLike the new digs.
Love the foxsnake photos!
Thanks Trailblazer. I did disappear for awhile. A new job description is keeping me quite busy these days. Another reason why I'm hiking at night. I am really just seeing more at night. I'm ready for the foliage to start dropping. I've been by your blog several times. Sorry comments have been so sparse.
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That fox snake is STUNNING. Absolutely gorgeous.
ReplyDeleteI have a deep love of wolf spiders..there are several monsters that hunt on the siding of my house at night. I love watching them.
Hey Samantha, thanks for visiting and commenting. I love wolf spiders as well, and have seen some really large ones around here. Watching them pounce on their prey is awesome. I think I have mis-identified the first photo of the spider in the web. I don't think it is a rabid wolf spider, although the second one definitely is. I'm still trying to get a better ID.
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I kind of gave up ID after "wolf spider". It's almost as bad as trying to ID sparrows!
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