Eastern Milk Snake

by Paul Forde
(Barrie, Ontario, Canada)

This item was submitted by one of our regular contributors - thank you Paul, from Barrie, Ontario!

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With our backyard backing onto a wetlands, we have many visitors. Some with four legs, some with two, and some with none at all!

A fairly uncommon Eastern Milk Snake came by the other day and was sunning on our patio stones.

As I approached it, it reared up and shook its tail, like a rattler, and came towards me instead of away.

When I didn't move, it settled down as its "display" was done and it moved on around my yard.

A beautiful and completely harmless snake, I REALLY hope it visits again.