1 post tagged “common garter snake”
We have so many cats around this place. At least six that I have seen, three that come around regularly. One comes and sits at the back door and begs for food. She will come in, but hates setting foot on the carpet. I was almost tempted to adopt her, I am pretty sure she's pregnant, and she was so dirty I thought she must be a stray. Last night she came over sparkly clean and smelling of shampoo and got no food from me. Poor thing. Another cat sits sentry duty on the compost heap. He can be seduced to the back door with a spoonful of tuna, but won't let me come near him otherwise. Today my Love alerted me to the fact that this cat was trotting across the lawn with a snake in his mouth. Of course I grabbed my camera and walked carefully towards him, he dropped the snake on the lawn and took off.
The snake was pretty quiet at first. Traumatized. So I had a bit of time to work on getting shots. This is one of the last ones. He's starting to get alert, warmed up in the sun, and he's ready to get away from this big black shiny thing sticking right in his face. He started flicking his tongue rapidly, but unfortunately just as I was changing my camera settings for rapid shooting to try and catch it, he suddenly darted away from me and into the forsythia.
Isn't he gorgeous??? :D
