It would be a nice snake to keep in your walled garden to deal with the voles and field mice! (Assuming one has a walled garden, something people needed before the invention of chicken wire!)
I had to walk back to the house to get my phone for that picture - snake had not moved. I did about another 30 minutes of setup to do the roof, leaving the ladder for last, thinking the snake would move ... nope, still there. At this point, I touched its tail a couple of times with a plastic rake, figuring that would get it moving - nope. I finally got a metal rake that had space between the tines. It took a couple of tries, but I was finally able to pick it up off the ladder & the snake got a ‘ride’ to the ground on the rake. It was in no hurry to move along, but finally crawled off towards my bags of pine needles. I suspect I will be seeing it again.
There are some bird nests in the barn & I think the snake had its eye on one of them.
I need a roofed (clear Lexan?) and dammed garden. Most of it (and our yard) is in standing water (again) and we have more t-storms forecast for tomorrow...
I’m pretty sure we have had wetter springs, from the standpoint of total rainfall, and major river flooding has not been a big issue, but in terms of days of constantly saturated soils and standing water in considerable parts of our yard, I don’t recall a spring anything quite like this. Sometimes we have a few weeks like this, but, this has been going on since early March.
Maybe I should have tried growing rice.