Oh, this is freaky.
Notice the mortar between the bricks in this photo...
The mortar is like that because it's a Spanish type house, and when they bought it there was ivy climbing up a major portion of the house (it was beautiful)...but Jeremy removed all of it because he was afraid snakes would get in it. I told them they were crazy.
OK...last night about 10pm Rachel and Jeremy went out to sit in the entryway after the kids were in bed. Rachel saw something on the mortar by the nest, and then it started moving down the wall into a big plant RIGHT BESIDE JEREMY'S CHAIR! It was a copperhead almost 4' long, which is a HUGE copperhead here...the biggest one I ever killed at the farm was 4' 1" long, and I killed hundreds of them there.
It had eaten the egg that was in the nest (the one that didn't hatch). The baby that was left wasn't there, so it must have left the nest yesterday evening. Rachel said she didn't think the snake ate it, because she didn't see a bulge in the snake anywhere.