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| Above, a bullsnake. Photo by William L. Farr. |
For the past several days, I have been seeing lizards in the yard. This means spring is here and snakes are also out and about.
We have rattlesnakes in New Mexico, although I haven't seen any. We also have bullsnakes and I have seen two of them. One was in the front yard, a rather large adult and the other was in my garage and was a young one. My initial reaction to seeing each was to check the tail. If no rattles, it's a bullsnake.
We respect bullsnakes as they help control rodents such as gophers and mice. Some have even eaten rattlesnakes, but that's rare.
From Wikipedia:
The bullsnake (Pituophis catenifer sayi) is a large, nonvenomous, colubrid snake. It is a subspecies of the gopher snake (Pituophis catenifer). The bullsnake is one of the largest/longest snakes of North America and the United States, reaching lengths up to 8 ft.
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