Another spring sign is my first sighting of a snake for the year. Yes, here we are only just into February and the snakes are showing themselves already. The snake I saw yesterday was a bull snake, about 3ft long and a little sluggish, but he had enough energy to coil up when I was near to him. I had Bandit the stray dog with me at the time (we were taking one of our twice daily walks) and fortunately I was able to distract Bandit so that he didn’t notice the snake, had he seen it I am sure he would have tried to do something with it, which is not a good idea.
While the bull snake is pretty harmless to us, I am sure that if one kind of snake is appearing there are others about to emerge too. Looks like Spring is on it’s way despite Punxsutawney Phil’s recent Groundhog Day prediction!