Nothing like a little biodiversity to keep you on your toes. Today I saw something darting under one of our backyard holly bushes. At first I thought it was a chipmunk, but after I spent a few minutes cornering it, I realized I’d come across a brown snake. A few minutes of finagling, and we had ourselves a captive.
Behold the grinning captor:
Although Mom first thought we should kill it, I convinced her otherwise. I even got her to touch it! So I figure we’ll take him to school tomorrow to show the kids, and then we’ll release him in the woods behind the church.
Update: Owen woke up from his nap, and we actually thought of his bug house as a better habitat between now and tomorrow. So here’s captor #2:
And a pair of future scientists:
keri | 07-May-08 at 5:47 pm | Permalink
who needs fernbank when you have this in your backyard!? i didn’t hear of talk about the snake at school today…i’m sure ella would’ve told me about it! very exciting….and creepy!
Rev. Garland | 11-May-08 at 10:31 pm | Permalink
Why the church? I hate snakes. If I see it at back there, I’m killing it!