Even if I had had more than a couple rocks to flip, I wouldn’t have found a brown snake (Storeria dekayi). I was too late. Brown snakes are creatures of summer. The sunny day on Friday might have been enough to bring them close to the surface, but the sun hid behind low clouds Saturday morning.. The wind blew damp and cool.
The snake I had found on the …
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