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was just a fluke.
However, over the next weeks I escorted 41 hatchlings out of the house or picked them dead out of spider webs in which they'd become entangled. If I found the entangled ones quickly enough, before they choked on the web or died of exhaustion trying to escape it, I pulled any silk out their mouths, washed the rest of the web from their scales, and turned them loose outside.
I figured, since northern ringnecks have clutches of about 10 eggs, the hatchlings represented at least five mating pairs. The next August brought another bloom of snakes, although this time smaller, perhaps because of the drought.
The real surprise (in many ways) the first year was having a half-grown juvenile snake fall from my ceiling in the middle of November. These are shy, woodland snakes that like damp, cool places where they hunt primarily salamanders, so I’m not sure how or why this one ended up in the ceiling — in November, yet.
I haven't decided yet whether my new house should be the Wasp House,
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