More fun finds!

It would be an all-day, every-day task to keep up on the herps we've been finding around here.  We've tried to highlight the more interesting ones, or just herp life in general.  We do try to take pictures of all the critters we come across.

The next animal we took pictures of just for fun, but a week later we found something that may have been "left behind" so we thought we'd share the fun and intrigue.

Just your usual ringneck snake.  Extremely hard to take a picture of as they do curl their tails in a defense, but they also thrash their heads around.  This was the only shot that put him in focus.  Speaking of focus, those "eyes" on Dennis' shirt are of a crocodile.   Probably 95% of his t-shirts (of which he wears nothing but) have herps on them. 

If you're read previous posts you know we have a retaining wall of railroad ties next to the house, where we've been finding things.  So then there was this...

Look closely at the little holes in the ties.    We were surprised to find this...

A nice little shed, going into one of those holes.  We can only surmise that it's from the aforementioned ringneck snake.  Of course we have also found garter snakes, worm snakes, etc in this general vicinity, and their food sources, such as more 5-lined skinks than we could count, and various forms of frogs.  Quite the little biosphere at our doorstep.

We do need to replace the railroad ties with something more substantial as they are beginning to lean and we don't want the dirt wall behind them covering the walkway, but we wonder when and how to do it, so as now to disturb the denizens therein.