We have 20 acres, surrounded by about 300 more, part of all of it is wooded. So we have herps living, outside, wild, among us. We admit, we have "salted" the property a bit, with odd bits of tin and plywood, to make "habitat" we can expose to see if anything is living under there.
Today, behind the shop building, our dog found this guy living in the shade of a willow tree. Scared her to death! Thankfully she's around snakes all the time, but never tries to harm them, or even go near them, for that matter. Since we mow in that area, we're going to release him further back in the property. Hope there are more...this was the first prairie king we've found; black rat snakes are much more common. Sometimes we have better luck here than when we purposefully go out looking!
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