This badass scared the shit out of me last week while I was trying to trim this hedge. It’s a rather large black rat snake.
Penstemon_Digitalis
I’m sad I don’t have any
LEGENDARY-TOAST
I accidentally…cut off the tail of one, while I was digging out a spot for my winged sumac 😭 I feel so bad. I cut like 2-3 inches of the tail and he was about that size. Just went chop chop with the edger I was using to outline the hole. I did not see him at all and he didn’t move despite me digging 2/3 the way around already. I hope he was able to recover. Probably not. I’m going to heck.
GingerVRD
R/whatisthissnake is very educational!
NotDaveBut
Nice and stripy!
designsbyintegra
I have a bunch of these little guys around my yard and decades later I still get excited when I see them.
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Congratulations! They’re so beautiful once you get over the initial jump scare 🙂
Thats a Garter Snake
https://preview.redd.it/js0t0yf11n2f1.jpeg?width=3000&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=7efde7cae67d1af0f59336b73a4df2bd31e5ec03
This badass scared the shit out of me last week while I was trying to trim this hedge. It’s a rather large black rat snake.
I’m sad I don’t have any
I accidentally…cut off the tail of one, while I was digging out a spot for my winged sumac 😭 I feel so bad. I cut like 2-3 inches of the tail and he was about that size. Just went chop chop with the edger I was using to outline the hole. I did not see him at all and he didn’t move despite me digging 2/3 the way around already. I hope he was able to recover. Probably not. I’m going to heck.
R/whatisthissnake is very educational!
Nice and stripy!
I have a bunch of these little guys around my yard and decades later I still get excited when I see them.