Apartment Complex Critters - The Worm Snake

Yesterday I rescued a snake in our apartment complex.  I believe he was a worm snake.  He was a chubby little black fellow about five inches long.  He had a teeny-tiny head and seemed to be blind.  Naturally, he lurks under the pine straw mulch used in our flower beds where he eats tiny bugs.  However, he fell out of the safety of the shrubbery and onto the concrete gutter.  He was not big enough to make it up over the curb so he opted to hide under a leaf.  I scooped him up with an envelope and put him back in the pine straw.  He promptly disappeared.
The little fellow was a reminder that all sorts of creatures live in our complex.

This one in the hands of a Virginia park ranger looks very similar to the worm snakes we have in Georgia.

Worm Snake in Virginia - Photo By vastateparksstaff [CC-BY-2.0 (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0)], via Wikimedia Commons