six snakes a-sunnin

I only caught one of them. This happened before it snowed. Do snakes go back into hibernation? It was so amazing, this snake did not even move when I reached out and caught him. But when I let him go, and he'd had time to warm up in our house, he was very fast. I like having snakes in our yard because then we don't get mice. We find them in our fishpond at times, trying to catch some fish for dinner, but we don't know if they've ever caught anything.