Lately I’ve been trying to get some exercise by walking during my lunch hour at work. To make the walk a bit more interesting, I walk on a single-lane road that takes one out of town and into some forested park land. The road also follows a creek some of the way. It’s fairly scenic for being right outside of the small college town where I work.
Most of the time when I’m walking, I’m looking up and around at all of the plants, trees and birds. Sometimes I take a gravel path off the road that takes one over a foot bridge that crosses the creek. It’s fun to get a look at the fish, frogs, etc. from that vantage point.
On the way back on the same gravel path, I noticed this guy:
He (about 2 feet or so long) was pretty chill about me checking him out and didn’t move at all. I was considering moving him from the walking path, but I figured that since I didn’t seem him the first time I walked by the spot that he was just passing through and would leave quickly when he was ready.
After doing a bit of searching on the web about snakes that are native to Delaware, I settled on the identification that it was a plain-bellied water snake (Nerodia erythrogaster) of some type. Seems to make sense considering how close it was to water. The information I found about this snake was mostly from here.
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