Found this little eastern worm snake adrift at "sea" on my pool thermometer and airlifted it to shore. It must have entered ~~fight, flight, or~~ freeze mode, poor thing, because it was a good 10 minutes before it departed its makeshift raft.
PS, I do have escape platforms for critters in the pool but the dumdums never seem to use them. Then again, I'm obviously not getting to meet the ones that did find and use them.
PPS, I can't get over how teeny this little one is! I'm experiencing some acute cute aggression!
Can you put something for scale next to that pool thermometer? I don't have this specific one.
Is the grass where your from abnormally large?
Depends on upkeep and species. Without a reference, one's idea of this photo's scale could be 2x off either way.
I think it's mostly crabgrass lol. I let the yard mostly do what it wants to, but I keep it trimmed to not encourage rodents. It could have some actual St. Augustine and Bermuda mixed in. It's also got wild strawberries, clover, ground ivy, carpet weed and other neat colorful weeds that I actually kind of like. The yard is too damn big to do battle with weeds and maintain a monoculture of HOA darling Kentucky bluegrass, so when you can't beat 'em, join 'em.
You're assuming I know something about grass but in fact I don't, which is where half of my error margins comes from.