Snake Attack
Heading down Shakedown Street to do evening chores tonight we were viciously attacked by this snake.
Why can't I load the picture?
That was ridiculous. I shouldn't have to use my laptop to post a picture. I'll need to figure that out in the App.
The wife has been researching the culprit and Google AI is saying it's an Oregon Racer:
"Juvenile racers look radically different from their adult counterparts. While adults grow into a solid, sleek olive, gray, or blue-green color with a solid yellow or cream belly, babies emerge with a highly contrasting pattern of dark brown or grayish saddles and spots. This camouflage pattern helps them blend into forest floor debris, pinecones, and leaf litter. They gradually lose these spots and darken into their uniform adult coloration over their first two years of life."
"As their name implies, racers are lightning-fast, alert, and rely on their speed to escape from danger. If they feel cornered or handled, they can be quite feisty and will readily strike or rapidly vibrate their tail against leaves to mimic a rattlesnake as a defensive bluff."
After we barely escaped with our lives, I called the piglets to dinner through the forest and I discovered why the boars are so ornery lately . . . Daddy's Girl is in heat (and I thought she was already pregnant).