A big reason I prefer to do my athletic stuff outdoors is the chance to see wildlife. On the Memphis riverfront I see many species of waterfowl and wading birds, fish, beavers, turtles, and snakes.
Meanwhile, things I do in the middle of town--running and bike riding, primarily--might not offer as many wildlife-viewing opportunities, but there are a few. When I ride my bike out to Shelby Farms like I did this past Thursday, I often see some wildlife in the park and in the adjacent Wolf River bottoms. Most of the time it's deer, but on Thursday I came up on the creature pictured above near one of the smaller Shelby Farms lakes. I could tell right away it wasn't poisonous; I'm not much of a snake expert, but I'm thinking maybe it was a king snake. I dismounted my bike to watch it for a few minutes, snap its picture, and make sure it got across the path without being run over by other riders. When I rode back through this location some twenty minutes later, it was nowhere in sight.
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