AMARILLO, TX -- We've been getting a few phone calls about more of you noticing snakes in your back yard. Normally we would see snakes, reptiles, even turtles, becoming active at the end of march, but this year they're here a few weeks earlier.
The reason? It's because of the warmer weather. Wildcat Bluff said most people in the metropolitan area won't be finding venomous snakes in their yard, but if you live where there are lots of open areas, like ranches or farms, look out.
"They come out mostly at this time of year to lie out on warm rocks and get warm, but they're out of hibernation," Ann Benedetti, from Wildcat Bluff. Rattlesnakes, among other venomous snakes, are what people in the panhandle have to worry about; but king and bull snakes are good at keeping pests and mice away.
