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Coluber constrictor priapus
Found this guy in my back yard. About half a meter long. Surprisingly, he let me get pretty close. There's no zoom on an of those photos, which I took with my phone. They're usually pretty skittish in my experience, but he didn't move once, with the exception of his tongue, for our entire two minute encounter.
I think my lawn is Bahia grass, and there are oak trees around. My back yard, where I found him, has a lot of oak leaves scattered around, and there is a large patch of what I've just discovered is called snake plant right on the other side of my fence near where he was.
Spotted on Apr 21, 2015
Submitted on Apr 21, 2015
2 Comments
Thanks! I just spent the last 20 minutes looking through your spottings and....well, I'm jealous. ;)
Awesome encounter! I usually can't get close to them either, great that you were able to :)