It is egg laying season, again.

[Catherine]

Some of the python species stay with their eggs until they hatch. They are big snakes who can go that long without food.

Corn snakes need to leave the eggs so they can eat. The eggs are better left alone. They would get dirty if the female came back and the baby in the egg is fragile and disturbing the egg can kill the baby.

Garter Snakes give birth to live babies in a den so they are with the mother at first.  I came across a mother, surrounded by babies, in the foothills of the Rockies. She had come out of a den to sun herself and the babies were with her. I was sunning myself on the same big rock and I stretched out my arms and put my hand into the middle of them. The mom just pulled the babies back into the den. She looked  like she was protecting them, but I was very still so she was very quiet too.

Who knows there may be a snake species that looks after its babies.

Mostly they choose a good place and them leave the eggs.

My girls stay wrapped around their eggs until I take charge of them. I think we are very close and they trust me.