![]() ![]() Then I took it over a mile away into a wilderness park area and released it. With a yard rake, raked it away from the house, then got an empty cat-litter bucket with lid, and one neighbor man held down the head with the rake, while another picked it up and put in the bucket and I clamped on the lid. It was not a blacksnake, and I have no idea what kind it was. Obviously, it had fed on all six Bluebird babies, and was coiled up in the box. I opened the box, went and got a tool and raked it out. Today, I walk up, and see a snake's head. I had just started putting out live mealworms to help with feeding such a large brood. There were six babies a week old in my Bluebird house. Less the snake huggers get bit on their own property and let the mosquito finish his drink of their blood and don't smack him and flick him off cause nature is taking its course. Stomp the head and protect your outdoor friends who eat 1000 mosquitoes a day. Ever see a big animal see a snake and stomp the crap out of it, they know too. All kinds of animals kill to defend as well as eat. The only other option is to let it go on your land. In SC it is illegal to relocate non game animals/ nuisance wildlife. I am all for nature and them doing their job else where but not on/in my home. Farmers, fisherman, settlers, herders and lots of other gathers have to kill to protect their property. I protect my daughter from threats and kill black widows (9) in the last year, as well as wasps and what ever else needed. ![]() There are many critters that need termination on your own land. Some critters need management and often times depredation. I killed the fleas with joy and the snake with revenge. I lost all 6 baby barn swallows to a rat snake today as I rescued 4 baby kittens infested with fleas. ![]() The front box has the round hole, the box in the back (where they rebuilt) is the slot hole across the top of the front. Hatch should be sometime this week of June 18. However, the same pair definitely did rebuild in the box in the back yard, and she's incubating 5 eggs this round. They can then rebuild at whichever one they like. I will wait until this hatch has fledged (and I feel confident of success) and then put up the new box in the back, and move the slot house to the front. The old box will be destroyed and not put up again. I took down the death box and bought a new one, and took the mounting bracket off the old and put on the new one. I'm not even back inside and they're in the feeder. The Blues wait for me each morning to come out with their worms. The snake incident was at the round-hole box in the front yard. Gene, because of the territorial nature of the Blues, and my limit on space, I have a box at the front of the house (not close to my house) and another in back yard, several feet from my feeding station. ![]()
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