In early July, while turning the big compost pile, I found a clutch of snake eggs. Laura and I decided to try to hatch them, and she set up an incubator. After about 2 months, one of the eggs actually did hatch and a pretty rat snake baby emerged. We got her some frozen pinkies from the pet store and over the following 3 weeks fed her all 6 of them. She had no trouble with the warmed-up pinkies and grabbed them quickly when we dangled them in front of her. So after 3 weeks, we returned her to the forest, and we hope we gave her a good start for a nice snake life. Here is a video of the release.

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