Over this past weekend, I spent a fair amount of time with the grandkids in the Blue Hills Conservation land next to their house. It's fabulous that the kids get to spend so much time on the pond. Sophia told me very seriously, "Gramily, I LOVE nature," and sure enough she does. We spent long enough on Moritz Pond to see a giant bull frog right at our fingertips, a mother goose with her two teenage goslings napping under her on a small rock in the pond, and a rather large water snake in the stream feeding into the pond. Best of all was Sophia's comfort level with the snake. She was wading in the stream when she spotted it, and merely said, "Look, Gramily, a snake!" She stayed in the water with it for a good time and then came out and I photographed him quickly before he shot into the culvert to the pond.
Can anyone identify this snake? It's silver head is at the far right.
I asked my herp expert friend...
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