I found this poor fella in the road when I went for a walk in my neighborhood about a week ago. Just around the corner from where I found the squished snake, I had previously seen two owls in a tree top and about another block away from that, I've seen a hawk atop a telephone pole. I suspect that if a car had not killed the little snake, the birds most likely would have! Cars, birds, civilization.... He was doomed any way you look at it!
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I reached down and touched the brick street when I snapped the pic just for a perspective of size.