Another snake

I was hopeful that I had finally spotted a water moccasin but it turned out to be a blotched water snake. I watched it happily cruise atop the willow-fluffed pond.

Nature isn't always touchy-feely good

It appears a Cowbird deposited her egg in an unsuspecting Dickcissel's nest...I have a feeling that egg will once again be "deposited" in a new place; the ground.

Snakes are cool to watch

For a couple of weeks now I have watched two Blotched Water snakes come and go.One night I saw a baby snake working its way back towards a hole behind a small waterfall that runs into a tiny pool. As the little thing desperately tried to fight the current and swim up into the hole, I saw the adult snake stick its head out of the hole...it seemed to say, "What are you doing? You are on your own now! You are not moving back in!"

Rain, shrooms, and a Copperhead, what more do you need?

I braved the steady rain today and trekked through the woods. Heavy rains provided numerous mushrooms but unfortunately no morels this season. I saw a small Southern Copperhead, who was coiled at the base of a dead Elm tree. I didn't bring my DSLR because of the rain but got decent pics with my Fuji. I wanted to get closer but as the saying goes, where there's one, there's more!