Snake! back yard.

Yes I made a decision and I will have to live with it, And I am happy I won't need to worry about this big dinosaur will not be setting in one of my wife's boxes of lamp fixtures to take a nip at here and make her sick,
This chicken snake carries all the bad germs and was big enough to draw blood if you got in her eating and ambush area's
This snake was large enough to have a big apatite and there is plenty of cats around to take care of the mice and field rats, She could smell the fresh born in the tree that I hold dear to me and don't crawl in my wife's work shop and make her scarred to be outside to do what she enjoys, Like I said, If she was not heading for the flying squirrels I would have just grabbed my camera.
I have captured these king snakes just to let loose under my old home place . But this one was going after something I did not want to see killed and eaten. Let your grand daughter or wife reach for a rock or a stick and get smacked by a diseased carrier that big and you will ether move it or shoot it so it will not harm you family, a flying squirrel will eat bugs and leave everyone alone, But a big dominant female King or chicken snake will hold there ground if they like the theater off food like new born blue birds and rodents as you call them. Heck I can keep them back myself here if need be.
But I enjoy setting and enjoying mother nature around me and it is very rare to have a nest of flying squirrels in your yard. They pose no threat and where here before I was. I do agree I could have let her have a feast on the new born , But I made my decision to protect them the only way I new I could.