Originally Posted by
FindersKeepers
LOL
I get up early and while the Keurig is making my first cup of coffee I take the the dogs out to potty. There's a light on the ceiling over the patio, but I keep it dimmed so it didn't throw a whole lot of light on the snake. Still, I could see the shape and I had my phone in the pocket of my bathrobe so I snapped a pic.
The next night, my husband got a good look at the snake that came into the courtyard and he said it had round eye pupils, while a cottonmouth would have vertical slit pupils, like a pit viper. Then last night he tells me a sign to watch for is a snake that floats on the surface of the water--rather than just having a head poking up--and I said, wait--I have one of those photos, too. And I did.
So, now I'm going to keep the dogs away from the pond until we figure out what's going on.