Eggs

Thanks for the confirmation. They do look more similar to box turtle eggs :-)

Ah. Saturniidae27 I just read that snake eggs appear deflated a couple days before hatching...so I don’t think these were ready to hatch then☹️. Probably eaten by our local fox then. As for the black racer, I had just seen on Monday one at least three feet long zooming from my steps off into the forest, so I do know that was a good possibility for ID

Saturniidae27 Thank you! The little snakes were grayish but I didn’t get to see them close-up. And today I can’t find the eggs where we placed them. I don’t know if they were eaten or hatched or if I mis-remembered where we tucked them in at. Interestingly I got a message back from a snake group and they ID the eggs as box turtle. Sigh. I looked it up and box turtle can also have an elongated egg additionally to round. We do have box turtles here. But the capsule shape and the leathery bag of goo texture really seemed to me more like snake. I didn’t keep to try to incubate, kind of wish I would’ve now. But hopefully whoever it was safely hatched already. There was a third egg already open, so maybe it was time for all of them to come out okay.

These are definentaly snake eggs, and most likely, the southern black racer. By chance, do you remember what the snakes appearance was like?