I wasn't sure what forum this would fall under, but always love watching different races on YouTube and this one popped up in my suggestion feed and made me an instant fan of Widman, straight out of the gate she wipes out and bike is damaged, thanks to race volunteers she gets it fixed but she...
It was on the Grand Tour, if you see the divit inside the circle, that was me trying to get a photo of it, but alas I failed.
It was originally laying across the trail, in fact I thought it might have been dead until it slithered into the brush.
This looks like the snake I almost ran over at Hartshorne this morning, a northern scarlet snake that is not common in NJ:
Are they known to be in Hartshorne?
I took my dog down to preserve in Sayreville twice this week, both times I came back with a tick crawling on me. Ticks are going to rampant this summer thanks to the mild temps this winter.