We got a call this afternoon. Someone opened up a bag of potting soil and found a bunch of baby snakes inside! They tried to identify them and thought they were corn snakes. We assumed they were probably baby prairie kingsnakes. We were both wrong...see below...
Baby Black Ratesnakes (Elaphe obsoleta obsoleta.) A few!!!
Of course they were delivered in the obligatory plastic jug. The interesting part is that this was they were found in an UNOPENED bag of potting soil, which had been sitting (and we can identify with this) on this man's front porch for over 2 months!
The potting soil company, which shall remain nameless, is headquartered in Ohio. So we believe that these guys may have originated in Ohio. We're going to keep one or two, and see how they grow up, if their color is the same, or slightly difference from our local variety, even though they're the same genus/species.
We're just glad we didn't have to identify a bunch of "dead" baby snakes!
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