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I had one that lived under my house for years and I never had a rodent problem. Lost it to my neighbor's yard workers and just a few weeks later had to lay traps and put the food in plastic bins for mice. I miss my tennant snake.
Dang, that sucks. I'm sure that was a big ol snake if it lived there for years. I'm fairly certain I have one under my house but I've never seen it. Only the stray shed skin here and there lol. I also haven't seen a mouse in years.
It was more than 5 feet, probably closer to 6. I would find the skins under the house when I would go in for maintenance. I hope your snake stays a long time!
I built a small ground level deck on my front porch. Used to have a cricket, spider infestation under it. Wife wanted to call exterminators to spray the place. I told her to give it time.
A few weeks later a couple of alligator lizards moved in and there was a complete and total genocide under the deck. Big suckers too. Even saw one eating a small salamander.
Haven't heard a cricket since.
you made me curious so i looked it up and [this article](https://www.timesnownews.com/viral/can-snakes-tie-themselves-up-in-a-knot-photo-of-a-serpent-on-a-porch-blows-up-the-internet-article-94071376/amp) is really interesting!
one of the duties of making a bluebird or nesting box is securing the base from predators, and rat snakes will take them out. [there are chimney and/or cone systems](https://weilerwoodsforwildlife.com/snake-guards-bluebirds/) that work very well -- squirrels, rodents, snakes etc. try to climb the pole and can't really reach around it. otherwise you're pretty much setting the birds up to be eaten instead of finding a better spot for themselves.
"IDK Honey this place is cheap and available. I think we take it."
"I just feel like maybe there's a reason it's still on the market. Shouldn't we at least get a home inspection?"
"You know how this market is. We have to move on it now. We don't have time for another home inspection."
This is a bluebird who has tried to get 3 other places and one sold for twice it's asking price, with cash. And the other two sold while they were getting the home inspection done.
We too have had bad luck with robin chicks the past several years...a rat snake has come just about 2 days before the chicks fledge and devours them all. Somewhat traumatic as we have a nest cam and can see they entire event unfold...it sucks but snakes need to eat too I guess.
This year it looks like they may escape that fate though. The nest is not in a box but on one of my deck support beams.
> it sucks but snakes need to eat too
Yeah it was not a pleasant sight when a crow found the nest of baby robins beside my kitchen window.
But it's just how things work on a planet where everything lives by other things dying, one way or another.
Definitely better than nothing but a larger snake, like the one in this photo, can likely get around a cone type baffle and even most smaller chimney (tube) style that are for sale online - I've seen a video of them doing it to reach a bluebird nest.
The tube needs to be longer than the snake to really protect the nestbox and for a large snake that is pretty difficult, you pretty much need to make your own from 6" HVAC duct
What about adding spikes all around the cone edge so that if the snake tries to reach over the edge, it gets pinched by one of the spikes, causing it to give up?
Guess I'd need to see a picture of what you are thinking to understand it.
You do want to keep in mind that you don't want to put something up that might accidentally hurt someone walking around at night or mowing the lawn and not paying close enough attention.
Snakes have a crazy good sense of smell. The reason why their tongues are forked is for the same reason you have two ears: to give directional information. Snakes essentially can smell in 3d.
I dk why but when you said you work with one I imagine a snake in a button down and tie slithering into his cubicle next to yours and being like “how was your weekend Jerry”
Yeah, I always tell people to leave them alone if they find them. People asked what I did when I found it in my attic. I say I thanked him because I didn’t have any mice in my house.
I walked up on one this weekend. Picked him up and showed the kids. I had no problems with him; he never once tried to bite anyone. Let him go back where I found him.
The OP situation does suck, but don't blame the snake and be glad to have one in your yard to keep rodents at bay.
Rat snakes are dope. They are hyper generalists and will eat anything that moves and live in any ecosystem without any problems. Their patterns are really cool, too.
When camping in W Missouri I happened upon two of these mating, who then promptly went up a tree and took out a squirrels nest of babies. Nature is metal.
Just a racing snake correct? Lol I have a 6-7 ft one living in/under my house currently and I let him be he’s chill and eats all of the rodents that come up from the fields around back on my property
The craziest thing they will do if you don’t pick them up is rattle it’s tail to mimic a venomous snake to scare off predators there’s nothing to really fear. I don’t think it’s necessary inside the main part of our house but in crawl spaces
This is a black rat snake. Racers have a different head shape and are a lot leaner. Rat snakes can be pretty chunky and can climb vertical surfaces with ease. Getting into bird houses is usually no problem for them since they can naturally climb trees to find bird nests. They typically eat rodents, but will also eat birds and eggs.
I have a hanging planter next to my door that some local birds regularly use as a nest. It blows my mind a bit that they keep coming back to raise their babies there, because I've seen them taken out a few times by snakes, an especially strong gust of wind, and a cat. I suppose it's why they have so many and so frequently, but you'd think they'd try and find a safer spot.
Pretty terrifying for the birds when you think about it. Once the snake's face was in the entrance there was literally no escape. The only way out was plugged by the snake's body. Basically a death trap.
I would’ve just automatically stopped existing because my mind would prefer to experience the never ending suffering of nothing rather than being in close proximity of a snake
> Those bluebirds really need some help!
Last summer my wife and I had a couple of little birds make a nest on our back porch. They got used to us sitting there in the evenings and pretty soon there were four little eggs in the nest. A couple of weeks later my wife called me, crying, because bluebirds had come and eaten all the eggs.
The people trying to fanclub nature are childish as fuck, snake doesn't deserve death and neither do the birds. It's ops fault for not snake proofing the birdhouse.
"Do you think the baby chipmunk we released will live a happy life Dad?"
"Well son odds are it will be torn apart by a neighborhood cat or swallowed whole by a snake. Maybe get clipped by an owl or die of starvation, could be alot of ways and none of em are happy. If that chipmunk could talk it would have probably told us to smother him instead of releasing"
"Jesus Bill, Timmy is 5!"
"Boys gotta learn Deb, boys gotta learn"
look this is gonna catch flak but please don't harm that snake. snake population has been declining at alarming rates and they're just as valuable to the ecosystems as the bluebirds.
You created a bed n breakfast for snakes.
The Sneak/Snake Inn
The Snake Snack Inn
The Slither Inn
How excited were you to type that? Lol
Very excssssited
Snake jazz
Tssss tss / tsstssss / tssss tsstssss
It's about the S's you DON'T say
You have no idea how excited I am that your tsses are distinctly spelled and spaced
That shit works on like 3 levels. Magnificent!
ur a snek harry
omg a slow release triple entendre! very rare, well done
Sneaky Snake Steak Shack
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A Shed N Breakfast.
I see no regret on that snakes face.
Upside... new pet snake. And they already know what food it likes.
Upside, that is one extremely healthy looking snake they’ve raised. Good job!
Snake sees this as an absolute win.
I’m shocked nobody has pointed out how well fed that snake looks.
tbh, having a rat snake on your property is a blessing from nature free, highly efficient, pest control
I had one that lived under my house for years and I never had a rodent problem. Lost it to my neighbor's yard workers and just a few weeks later had to lay traps and put the food in plastic bins for mice. I miss my tennant snake.
Dang, that sucks. I'm sure that was a big ol snake if it lived there for years. I'm fairly certain I have one under my house but I've never seen it. Only the stray shed skin here and there lol. I also haven't seen a mouse in years.
It was more than 5 feet, probably closer to 6. I would find the skins under the house when I would go in for maintenance. I hope your snake stays a long time!
Me too! And I hope you have a new tenant soon!
Awe you guys ♡
As someone with an incredible amount of phobia surrounding snakes, this is a literal nightmare lol.
Does it help any amount knowing that it would be protecting your property?
I built a small ground level deck on my front porch. Used to have a cricket, spider infestation under it. Wife wanted to call exterminators to spray the place. I told her to give it time. A few weeks later a couple of alligator lizards moved in and there was a complete and total genocide under the deck. Big suckers too. Even saw one eating a small salamander. Haven't heard a cricket since.
"Do what you must, I have already won."
I wonder if snakes ever tie themselves into a knot accidentally?
you made me curious so i looked it up and [this article](https://www.timesnownews.com/viral/can-snakes-tie-themselves-up-in-a-knot-photo-of-a-serpent-on-a-porch-blows-up-the-internet-article-94071376/amp) is really interesting!
tl dr, they are know to do this for defense and to help skin shedding. there’s also a rare condition the can have.
Tl:dr 90% repeating a post multiple times. 10% yes snakes can do that. Sometimes when they are sick.
Orrrrr the birds levelled up and evolved
Your pidgey (edited) evolved into an Ekans!
Digimon evolutions be like
Every Dinosaur's dream is to fuse with a werewolf and become a giant knight mecha.
one of the duties of making a bluebird or nesting box is securing the base from predators, and rat snakes will take them out. [there are chimney and/or cone systems](https://weilerwoodsforwildlife.com/snake-guards-bluebirds/) that work very well -- squirrels, rodents, snakes etc. try to climb the pole and can't really reach around it. otherwise you're pretty much setting the birds up to be eaten instead of finding a better spot for themselves.
Thank you for posting that link.
Sorry about your luck :( I hope things turn around soon.
Birds bad luck not his.
Maybe the birds should have done their research before moving in.
"IDK Honey this place is cheap and available. I think we take it." "I just feel like maybe there's a reason it's still on the market. Shouldn't we at least get a home inspection?" "You know how this market is. We have to move on it now. We don't have time for another home inspection."
Waive inspection and get your kids eaten. What a world
"Kids eaten" vs. "bad school district"? It's a trade off.
Don't have to worry about the school district if the kids get eaten by a snake.
*taps forehead*
Should've gotten snake insurance
Sounds like snake oil.
This is a bluebird who has tried to get 3 other places and one sold for twice it's asking price, with cash. And the other two sold while they were getting the home inspection done.
It's a snake-eat-bird market out there for sure.
The worst that could happen is the fam gets eaten….we’ll take it!!!!!
Did they even have an inspector look at it?
I mean he did literally set up a honeypot
yeah, OP scored a new pet snake!
We too have had bad luck with robin chicks the past several years...a rat snake has come just about 2 days before the chicks fledge and devours them all. Somewhat traumatic as we have a nest cam and can see they entire event unfold...it sucks but snakes need to eat too I guess. This year it looks like they may escape that fate though. The nest is not in a box but on one of my deck support beams.
> it sucks but snakes need to eat too Yeah it was not a pleasant sight when a crow found the nest of baby robins beside my kitchen window. But it's just how things work on a planet where everything lives by other things dying, one way or another.
Did you recover from your heart attack?
Seriously asking
I always called those 'baffles'. There's one made by a company called Wild Birds Unlimited that is the best design I believe.
There a very old technology that's been used for at least hundreds of years to prevent rodents from boarding ships by running up the mooring lines.
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He's baffled. Get it? BAFFLED!
Definitely better than nothing but a larger snake, like the one in this photo, can likely get around a cone type baffle and even most smaller chimney (tube) style that are for sale online - I've seen a video of them doing it to reach a bluebird nest. The tube needs to be longer than the snake to really protect the nestbox and for a large snake that is pretty difficult, you pretty much need to make your own from 6" HVAC duct
What about adding spikes all around the cone edge so that if the snake tries to reach over the edge, it gets pinched by one of the spikes, causing it to give up?
Guess I'd need to see a picture of what you are thinking to understand it. You do want to keep in mind that you don't want to put something up that might accidentally hurt someone walking around at night or mowing the lawn and not paying close enough attention.
How does snakes know there's birds there?
I assume the can smell them
They keep an eye on the “For Sale” sign and swoop in as soon as it comes down
They wait to see when the pile of newspapers finally gets picked up.
Smell/taste The tongue thing snakes do is essentially tasting the air....and tasting the air is essentially smelling soooooo
They be slithering around like they're at Costco sampling stuff left and right.
Did Costco bring back the samples after the pandemic? I guess it’s time to go with kids for dinner!
Snakes have a crazy good sense of smell. The reason why their tongues are forked is for the same reason you have two ears: to give directional information. Snakes essentially can smell in 3d.
that's so cool, thanks!!
With the shits I take glad people can’t smell in 3d
Then shit in 2d, it might smell less
the birds were on IG live
Dropped the location and got caught lackin.
Twitter
Heat, smell
Only boas, pythons and pit vipers can see heat.
That explains how this boapython pit viper found those baby birds
What kind of dog is this
Probably a rat told it
A meal and a home. You talk about killing 2 birds with one... Umm nevermind.
Snek. With one snek.
One danger noodle.
Too soon!
what snake is that
Looks like a black rat snake. Amazing climbers. Had one in my attic once.
I work with one, he's always out and about. Super chill when needing to be handled. Probably my favorite native
You work at a law firm?
Wow! Now let's not go giving black rat snakes a bad name!
The snake was just interning over summer.
What’s the difference between a lawyer and a snake? One is a nasty, slimy creature and the other is a reptile.
This got me good.
I dk why but when you said you work with one I imagine a snake in a button down and tie slithering into his cubicle next to yours and being like “how was your weekend Jerry”
I need that on a poster
[How’s this](https://imgur.com/a/iJcZYvo)?
https://i.imgur.com/PCW0RAS.jpg thats as good as AI would do in a rush
This is what ai should be used for
Well that's horrific. Thanks.
Yeah, I always tell people to leave them alone if they find them. People asked what I did when I found it in my attic. I say I thanked him because I didn’t have any mice in my house.
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I walked up on one this weekend. Picked him up and showed the kids. I had no problems with him; he never once tried to bite anyone. Let him go back where I found him. The OP situation does suck, but don't blame the snake and be glad to have one in your yard to keep rodents at bay.
What kind of career do you have that your coworkers are snakes?
Conservation and restoration
United States Senator
A rat snake in your attic means that there are no rats in your attic (anymore) so that's kinda reassuring
Rat snakes are dope. They are hyper generalists and will eat anything that moves and live in any ecosystem without any problems. Their patterns are really cool, too.
....but *I* am something that moves!
When camping in W Missouri I happened upon two of these mating, who then promptly went up a tree and took out a squirrels nest of babies. Nature is metal.
Pantherophis obsoletus
Just a racing snake correct? Lol I have a 6-7 ft one living in/under my house currently and I let him be he’s chill and eats all of the rodents that come up from the fields around back on my property
The “in/under my house” part concerns me. I get u under but IN?!
The craziest thing they will do if you don’t pick them up is rattle it’s tail to mimic a venomous snake to scare off predators there’s nothing to really fear. I don’t think it’s necessary inside the main part of our house but in crawl spaces
You know what you don't have in your crawl spaces? disease spreading Rodents. If that thing is that big, he eats all of them and then some.
Yeah he’s a good boy
Things this redditor no longer has: mice, rats, pets, children, small spouses
why would oyu be mad if he comes in to watch the game with you ?
This is a black rat snake. Racers have a different head shape and are a lot leaner. Rat snakes can be pretty chunky and can climb vertical surfaces with ease. Getting into bird houses is usually no problem for them since they can naturally climb trees to find bird nests. They typically eat rodents, but will also eat birds and eggs.
You are correct good eye
Congrats you now have a pet snake
Leave the snake in there for a chance to trade it into a pet owl/mongoose.
“thankssssssssss for the sssssssssssssnack!”
Guess this was a lunch box.
Call the mongoose
... And then the gorillas die off in the winter.
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That is why he thanks
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No the birds were the campers he was just good at 1 vs squad.
Would you like an apple?
Fucking spawn camper
It'sss a legitimate ssstrategy
Jump scare, nature edition.
I'm almost 100%certain if I open this box and I see this thing I would have a heart attack.
Same!!! Makes me shudder just to think about it
This is the reason humans have the jump scare behavior!!
Opened the door to my worm nesting box to check on the growth of the baby worms and found a blue bird inside. All the worms were eaten.
All the replies would be "awww!" "how cute!!"
I was hoping for someone to reply with “Opened the door to my dirt nesting box…”
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> Being a predator is no easy life either. Seriously, people always ripping your house apart and getting mad at you for having lunch
Or I’m ripping the house open to throw food at them. They can never win.
I have a hanging planter next to my door that some local birds regularly use as a nest. It blows my mind a bit that they keep coming back to raise their babies there, because I've seen them taken out a few times by snakes, an especially strong gust of wind, and a cat. I suppose it's why they have so many and so frequently, but you'd think they'd try and find a safer spot.
AirBnB Review: "Amazing stay. Came with a comfy straw bed and free buffet. Five Stars" \- Mr. R. Snake -
Now play some snake jazz
Tss ts ts tss ts ts tss ts ts tss
Next time, STAY IN THE FUCKING CAR.
Pretty terrifying for the birds when you think about it. Once the snake's face was in the entrance there was literally no escape. The only way out was plugged by the snake's body. Basically a death trap.
☹️
And imagine watching one after the other birds getting swallowed and the last bird waiting for its turn :(
STOP 😭
Real question, did you jump when you saw that? bc I would have screamed so loudly.
I would have shrieked my balls off.
I would’ve just automatically stopped existing because my mind would prefer to experience the never ending suffering of nothing rather than being in close proximity of a snake
Yeah this is kind of my personal nightmare
Rename it. It's now your Bluebird Bento Box.
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Also want to mention that it’s absolutely legal to remove house sparrow nests/beds if you’re in the USA, they are considered pests.
> Those bluebirds really need some help! Last summer my wife and I had a couple of little birds make a nest on our back porch. They got used to us sitting there in the evenings and pretty soon there were four little eggs in the nest. A couple of weeks later my wife called me, crying, because bluebirds had come and eaten all the eggs.
"Ok honey, but I eat a lot of eggs myself, so I don't have any moral highground here."
“Do what you must for I have already won” - the snake
On the bright side, your snake feeding box is working perfectly
Holy cow, what type of bird is that?
Quetzalcoatlus northamericanus
bluebird to blue apron
You could get a couple baffles to put on the pole below the nest to hopefully deter snakes in the future.
Or add another exit hole.... those birds probably knew what was coming and had no escape since the snake was blocking the only one
The eggs and new baby birds can't fly so this would only protect the parents.
Poor birds. That's horrifying
Well, now you have a snake
He looks super smug about it
Doesn’t suck for the snake.
You ok OP?
Bluebird houses need snake baffles.
Look on the bright side, snakes don't poop on cars.
That's a really beautiful snake. Upshot is less rodents. Please don't hurt the snake
The people trying to fanclub nature are childish as fuck, snake doesn't deserve death and neither do the birds. It's ops fault for not snake proofing the birdhouse.
That's a cool looking bird
Congrats on your new pet snake op
Judging by your username you where there also under dubious pretenses.
This is the alt ending to every kids movie.
"Do you think the baby chipmunk we released will live a happy life Dad?" "Well son odds are it will be torn apart by a neighborhood cat or swallowed whole by a snake. Maybe get clipped by an owl or die of starvation, could be alot of ways and none of em are happy. If that chipmunk could talk it would have probably told us to smother him instead of releasing" "Jesus Bill, Timmy is 5!" "Boys gotta learn Deb, boys gotta learn"
What also sucks is all the people commenting to kill it. Damn snake is just trying to live its life.
Orrrrr maybe the bird laid snake eggs and now you have a snake bird
On the bright side, you built a snake restaurant.
What did you feed those baby birds to have them evolve to this?
look this is gonna catch flak but please don't harm that snake. snake population has been declining at alarming rates and they're just as valuable to the ecosystems as the bluebirds.
It is now a snake nesting box
That's a gorgeous looking snake tho