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

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