Found a new spot

[Bruce Litton]

My son used to be a snake fanatic and found 10 of the 16 NJ species and photographed them over five or six years. But he never found the smooth green snake, not in NJ, though the two of us did in Illinois. (He once found a whole den of copperheads up on a ridge north of I-80--16 copperheads he counted, catching the largest with his tongs to set on gravel so they assumed strike positions for good photos.)