Backyard Bushcraft - The Spidey Hole

Spidey Hole

While my physical activities are fairly limited right now, my powers of observation are working just fine. There's been a recent addition to my backyard. It seems that a hairy megalamorph has moved into a new area of my backyard. Most of the spidey holes in my yard are in an entirely different area which is a couple of hundred yards away. This was a fairly large hole that had an opening which was approximately an inch and a half wide. It appeared to be fairly new since there wasn't a lot of silk around the opening.

 Lil' RW, my grandson, had come across some snake sign and wanted to have me check it out. When I checked the snake sign, sure enough Lil' RW had found a fairly fresh snake skin (parts of it were still moist) but he failed to notice the new spidey hole. The snake skin (which was almost 4 feet long) was probably from a large rat snake that hangs around in my backyard. The rat snake makes an appearance every once in a while. 

A check of the new spidey hole the following day showed an increased amount of silk around the opening. Looks like there's going to be some new neighbors in the backyard.

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Riverwalker