Kingfisher & Wombat
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It’s possible. For obvious reasons I did not wish to take a closer look!
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My initial suggestion involving West Virginia mimes was shot down by the publisher.
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I KNEW IT WAS LANDING SOONER I KNEW I DIDN’T HALLUCINATE THAT
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I am so sad I didn’t get to see one. That would have been AMAZING for the yard list.
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It’s okay! These are probably the Florida population! They aren’t leprosy reservoirs!
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Incredibly handsome noodle, though!
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Why? The snakes lived here long before I did. I’m the squatter in their territory. They also eat the mice that carry hantavirus locally, so I’d rather have lots of snakes and less plague.
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It’s about the size of the top of a soda can.
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So far, no concerns. Hound stays in the walled yard, which the snakes seem to avoid.
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I figure they should start to show up around December.
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Have I inflicted my hyena story on you?
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I have never seen one in my town. Albuquerque is lousy with ‘em.
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I think it’s probably overall temps—they mate in spring and the females are live bearers, then give birth when it starts to cool off because the babies aren’t as good at thermoregulation, if my hasty reading on the subject is correct.
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Smaller. About the the size of the top of a soda can? He was seriously wee. If he’s more than a week or two old, I’d be very surprised.
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Thaaaaat would have been a very strange episode.
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Sadly most of them won’t survive—at this size they’re easy prey for nearly everything. And if they do keep down the population of mice (we have endemic hantavirus) so far as I’m concerned, they can have free run of the property.
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OH! Okay, I was seeing the open mouth as the hood and the dark bit as a marking. Yes! Handsome fella.
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As an adult, living in a place with endemic hantavirus in rodents, the rattlesnakes are very welcome on the property, though I do kinda prefer when they’re old enough to rattle.