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NH has 11 native snake species
When I was eight(ish), my family moved to a new house, and this led to a certain amount of sibling-supervised outdoor playtime (thanks ![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png)
starandrea!) in an unfamiliar area. Mostly what I remember is our mom telling us to stay out of one particularly swampy part, because there were snakes there.
At the time, this made perfect sense to me. I'm sure it was like the quicksand thing -- of course there would be a swamp full of snakes, why wouldn't there be??? Probably pretty common, really! Very sensible to avoid them when possible.
In retrospect, it makes almost no sense, because none of us were scared of snakes, and also there were not snakes. (Possibly our mom thought I would get lost, which is -- not unlikely, knowing me. Also, the swamp part was very true, so there was a lot of potential for A) getting very dirty, and B) slipping and getting hurt, so it's not like it was bad advice overall.)
(Fun facts I learned in the course of writing this post: New Hampshire has only one species of venomous snake -- the timber rattlesnake. They are considered 'critically imperiled' and protected by law. They do not live in swamps.)
starandrea!) in an unfamiliar area. Mostly what I remember is our mom telling us to stay out of one particularly swampy part, because there were snakes there.At the time, this made perfect sense to me. I'm sure it was like the quicksand thing -- of course there would be a swamp full of snakes, why wouldn't there be??? Probably pretty common, really! Very sensible to avoid them when possible.
In retrospect, it makes almost no sense, because none of us were scared of snakes, and also there were not snakes. (Possibly our mom thought I would get lost, which is -- not unlikely, knowing me. Also, the swamp part was very true, so there was a lot of potential for A) getting very dirty, and B) slipping and getting hurt, so it's not like it was bad advice overall.)
(Fun facts I learned in the course of writing this post: New Hampshire has only one species of venomous snake -- the timber rattlesnake. They are considered 'critically imperiled' and protected by law. They do not live in swamps.)