Hi, folks, another non-bird question about CVNP-- I have been seeing snakes, which I had tentatively identified as northern water snakes, along part of the towpath trail. They looked a little too light colored and stripey, but about right size, and definitely aquatic, and swam UNDER the water, and not on top. Not being a herpetologist, I couldn't really swear to a pit viper head or not. This past week, I saw one swimming with his (or her) mouth open- and the inside was BRIGHT WHITE. So bright that it took me quite a while to decide that it was, in fact, the snakes mouth and not a bird's egg in his or her mouth. Cottonmouths should be 200-300 miles south of here, methinks. Anyone look inside a water snake's mouth recently? thanks, Bill ______________________________________________________________________ Ohio-birds mailing list, a service of the Ohio Ornithological Society. Our thanks to Miami University for hosting this mailing list. Additional discussions can be found in our forums, at www.ohiobirds.org/forum/. You can join or leave the list, or change your options, at: http://listserv.muohio.edu/scripts/wa.exe?LIST=OHIO-BIRDS Send questions or comments about the list to: [log in to unmask]