Gigantic snake

  "It looks like some Mockers are fighting a Blue Jay in the front yard." Mom said last Tuesday afternoon as she looked out the front window. "Oh, two Blue Jays."
   I looked out the window to see five Mockingbirds and two Blue Jays screaming and dive bombing something next to the front steps. I see a flash of white and ice formed in my stomach. Hoping I'm wrong I grab the binoculars we keep by the window for bird watching. "Shit, there's a huge snake there." (there were a lot of swears in there originally)
  "I'll go get the shovel." I shout running out the back door. I'd like to be able to say my thoughts, as I ran full out to the barn were of the danger the snake posed to the chicks or that crazy cat Blaze who had been stalking up to the snake, her tail twitching with annoyance, but for the most part my thoughts were just a hysterical repetition of 'Snake!' and 'Shovel! Get the shovel.' I'm not good with snakes, they scare the daylights out of me.
   It was over six foot long! I looked it up in 'Texas Snakes: a field guide' by James R. Dixon and John E. Werler, (it was the first snake I've looked up that looked exactly like the pictures.) It was a Rat Snake which makes sense since according to the book their favorite foods are birds and their eggs and they often climb trees to eat them.
   That's a terrifying thought, finding a snake that size right at home slithering around in a tree, especially with some of the trees needing trimming. This snake might have just finished raiding a nest. So, if you see a bunch of birds causing a ruckus in your yard it might be a snake and a giant one at that.      
 
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