we’ve finally joined the rest of the world
and have weather that allows us to enjoy the outdoors once again
(though it still gets really cold at nite – like 36!)
the first visitors to our animal sanctuary are usually these ducks
this year the boys fed them so they came closer than they had in the past
this was another fun one!
i didn’t realize that garter snakes sunned themselves in trees
(or bushes as the case may be)
it also means the beginning of ‘project’ season
this year includes a garden
and a fort!
(for starters…)
snapshots: life with boys 
Are you sure that’s a garter snake? Just wondering.
ummm…guess i never really investigated it…let’s not mention that possibility in mixed company tho’!! :)
It appears to be a Northern Brown Snake.
NY snakes
… which led me to …
Picture of a Northern Brown Snake — looks a lot like the picture you took!
It also appears that the venomous snakes in NY are not near Buffalo. :)
Nice! Essentially the same in threatening-ness, but still, let’s not pass this on! :)
i think that i would have passed out if i saw that snake in my yard. holy cow…..don’t surprise me like that ang! i’m just reading this blog and all of the sudden there it is sitting there in your bush! Blahhhh. If you can’t tell, I have a slight FEAR of snakes!
you would have loved what i found in the basement the other day – went down to check the breaker box and there was a snake stuck on a glue trap that our exterminators left for mice! YUCK!! gladly it was already dead…not sure i could have handled it while it was still alive