Today's offering is beneficial to our environment. She lives here, on the grounds and has been here for a few years. She is a Sonoran gopher snake, a local subspecies of the common gopher snake. (No, I didn't pick her up looking for the uro-genital cloaca positioning, she has a nest with a clutch of eggs.) They eat rodents!!! When confronted, they will ball up and hiss, shake their tale like a rattler and lunge at the intruder. Rather harmless, actually. They tend to be diurnal…
Pictures taken a week ago.
She is just under five feet long.
Sonoran Gopher Snake - Pituophis melanoleucus affinsis
Pictures taken a week ago.
She is just under five feet long.
Sonoran Gopher Snake - Pituophis melanoleucus affinsis
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