Snakes; If Caught Please Release...

Here in Lindsay, with all the Citrus blossoms we get LOTS of bees. Bees are great, but they sometimes don't pick the best places to build their hives.

We had an old pallet out back that the bees started to call home. So we called a Beekeeper from Carys Honey Farm in to come collect and relocate them. When he got here we found a rather large Gopher Snake inside of his bee box.
The plant employees wanted nothing more than to see this snake DEAD!
But being the nature lover and rodent hater I wasn't going to let that happen. Sometimes being in upper management has it's perks, because I got my way and the snake got to live another day.
I caught it and set it free under the sea-train container out by our ponding basin. Sorry rodents...