Just a heads up for those of you who may not already know about this: The Department of Game and Inland Fisheries has a free high quality, full color guide to Virginia snakes. All you have to do is send them an email with your name and address (see link below). It is really an excellent guide, with terrific photos. The somewhat antagonistic relationship between birds and snakes (as both predator and prey, depending on the bird and the snake in question) makes this both a useful guide and a worthwhile read. http://www.dgif.state.va.us/wildlife/publications/snake_guide.html Rich Terrell Chesterfield You are subscribed to VA-Richmond-General. To unsubscribe, send email to va-richmond-general-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxx with 'unsubscribe' in the Subject field. To adjust other settings (vacation, digest, etc.) please visit, //www.freelists.org/list/va-richmond-general.