Black Rat Snake Eggs – Elaphe obsoleta
Posted on July 19, 2008 – 4:08 pm by admin
Well, well, well…guess what I found.
Today, I decided to venture outside into the wall of humidity to dig up and re-plant some rhododendrons. We had a few here and there that needed to make their way up the hill for a nice rhododendron line in the front. I think it will look very nice, come Spring.
Anyway, enough about that. Upon digging my second hole for the rhododendron, I discovered about four while oval things sitting approximately six inches beneath the dirt. I thought they were bird eggs. I left them there and went inside to tell Laura about my find. I knew she would get up and research what they were for me. She enjoys that kind of stuff.
I went back outside and took a few pictures of these things and then covered them back up. I had a feeling they weren’t bird eggs, but turtle eggs. I planted all the rhododendrons and then went back inside.
After I showed Laura all the sweat on my face, she revealed to me that I had just stumbled across Black Rat Snake Eggs. For photos of these creatures, click the link above. For photos of Black Rat Snake Eggs, look below…
Me holding a Black Rat Snake egg in my fingers.
Showing the size of the Black Rat Snake eggs compared to my hand.
Good thing I covered these eggs back up. I did have a strange feeling something was peering out from the woods…straight at me…
TYSM I read this one and decided to try it out on my ACER (See, its not always HP with the problems)...
One Response to “Black Rat Snake Eggs – Elaphe obsoleta”
By grannygrey on Feb 14, 2009 | Reply
I just dug up 4 black rate snake eggs this afternoon..and your picture helped me confirm what I found…around my shutoff valves for our irrigation system. Apparently one was just hatched, as it came flying out and into the grass when I was trying to uncover the valves! Mama laid the eggs inside the the hole where the solenoid for the system is!
We do have a 6 footer which several of us share..which has a bad habit of ‘guarding our front doors’ making it a bit awkward for visitors!
Donna