It's that time of year.

A week ago I was hanging up laundry and hear a little scream.  At this time of the year it usually means a blotched water snake has gotten a frog or something else is being eaten by a snake. 
So of course I had to go investigate.  I put Bonnie inside and headed toward the noise. 
Standing on a rock I was able to see this guy eating a baby cottontail.  I saw him strike the baby (nature can be so cruel) a couple of times and then begin to swallow the baby. 

I called my husband to come and see the drama unfolding before my eyes.  Bob was able to quickly kill this guy.  Unfortunately he'd already eaten 2 of the babies in the nest, the 3rd baby was in the snakes mouth when Bob killed him and if there was a 4th in the nest I will never know.  By the time I rechecked the nest making sure that there were no snakes in the vicinity, it looked like momma cottontail had moved the baby to a safer place. 

We've had lots of rain that's bringing them out but also the temperature is lower because of the rain so they are moving more as well. 

The beauty of camo.  Do you see him?

This is a Texas Rat Snake.  This happened a couple of days after the rattlesnake.  I went into a storage area that is under our porch.  I wasn't expecting to see a snake there and it scared me just a little bit.