Angi said:Terry~ Do you have a lot of bushes and ground cover? I am always afraid I wil get bit by one I don't see.
Fair amount, I suppose...lot of rose bushes by porch, a meadow for a front lawn.
The trick is to make noise (not walking "sneaky") and snakes'll avoid you.
Angi said:I have no idea about that. Have not heard it before. We get so many I am sure another is near. This was my first this year (that I saw) but my nieghbors have had them. Well I had a little guy that I thought was a rattler a week or more ago, but he could have been a gopher. Anyway my next door neighbor had been doing some grading so that could have drove him out. I have heard that the babies stay near their nest for like a year or two and that kind of freaks me out as I have seen babies. One was tinny tiny I know some of you would be thrilled to host these visitors, but I don't like them. Yes it is fear. I know they are not bad......
Get a guinea hen or two...they keep snakes away.