I don’t believe that living is a zero-sum game. I don’t believe that in order for humans to win, the animals have to lose.
The snake was about 8 feet up a wisteria vine, it ended up snaking :-) all the way out to the end to check out an empty birds nest. It is only the second true king snake that I have seen here. I have a lot of the San Diego variant which has a single cream stripe down its back. Wonderful the biology that would change the striping pattern so dramatically with apparently only a minor genetic change.
It was smaller than I first thought. I thought that the siding in the background was 5 inches wide, it’s only 4. I estimate that the snake was seven and a half lines so that’s only 30 inches — not even 3 feet, but it was a healthy well fed critter. Bob 310 429 8477 http://www.PuraVidaAquatic.com