2022 caught 20 , 2023 #22 - #27, 2024, #28-29, #30 Caught

[addy1]

One snake fine, but losing 200 plus fish , last year, no thanks.
Going to attempt to get to zero water snakes

 

[Tula]

Drats! Was hoping they'd left for " greener pastures" so to speak.

 

[addy1]

Drats! Was hoping they'd left for " greener pastures" so to speak.

Me too, darn snakes.

 

[addy1]

Tiny one, live birth this year.

 

[SarahT]

Tiny one, live birth this year.
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I wasn't sure if I wanted to do a "sad" or "wow!" comment, so I'm doing both, happy to assume BabySnaky is in the farmer's pond down the road.

 

[BKHpondcritters]

Tiny one, live birth this year.
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Your snakes are way ahead of the curve, reproduction timeline wise. Look out for the next wave!

 

[addy1]

I wasn't sure if I wanted to do a "sad" or "wow!" comment, so I'm doing both, happy to assume BabySnaky is in the farmer's pond down the road.

Makes the trip tomorrow. Safely contained right now. Snappy lil thing. Hissing and biting

 

[addy1]

If not snakes then

deer, did a number on this lily, pads, flowers, gone, yanked out of the pot. It was growing good...was..a spare tuber I planted just because. The pads still there are just floating

 

[j.w]

@addy1 Shame on those deer!
Glad you caught that snake, same kind?

 

[Lisak1]

Oh my - I have no words!

 

[addy1]

@addy1 Shame on those deer!
Glad you caught that snake, same kind?

Yes same northern water snake, she had babies.

 

[addy1]

#26 just caught, around 2 foot long, thumb thick.

Waiting in a trash can to be released tomorrow. Pillow case dump! After this many snakes i am finding the easiest way to package for release.

 

[j.w]

#26 just caught, around 2 foot long, thumb thick.

Waiting in a trash can to be released tomorrow. Pillow case dump! After this many snakes i am finding the easiest way to package for release.

Here we go again!

 

[GBBUDD]

put out a heated stone from the pet store in a bucket preferably larger than a compound bucket

 

[YShahar]

Aaargh! There's got to be some way you can get someone else to do all the hard work of catching all these invaders... Maybe get a local herpetology club to come out and install snake cams and use your pond as a snake-collecting point? Make lemonade out of all these reptilian lemons!