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vegabond
06-17-2007, 10:24 PM
These two are from today. I always thought of them as Western Terrestrial Garter Snake; Thamnophis elegans.The top one is the wierd looking one. lots of white spots, not so much stripe. the bottom one is what I am Used to finding. I realize that there is much variation in patterns and color, but this one was just different. These were around 7700 ft in colorado.

http://i25.photobucket.com/albums/c71/slickspawn/gart23.jpg

http://i25.photobucket.com/albums/c71/slickspawn/gart24.jpg
ssssnakeluvr
06-18-2007, 07:26 AM
Those are wandering garters...very nice!!!! T e vagrans....Brian Eager has a collage of pics of wandering garters...I'll email him and see if he can post it on here...I have a copy of the pic also... they can have quite a variation in color and patterns!! :D
GarterGuy
06-19-2007, 09:23 AM
Yep, just another colour variety of T.e.vagrans....like Don stated, they can by very variable. Very nice find!
Roy
vegabond
06-19-2007, 04:30 PM
thanks guys, find them every day, and love em
Thamnophis
06-19-2007, 07:38 PM
Very beautiful!
Snaky
06-21-2007, 01:33 AM
Nice findings :)
Stefan-A
06-21-2007, 01:49 AM
Nice indeed. :) For some reason the second one reminds me of a Storeria dekayi. :D
drache
06-21-2007, 03:35 AM
nice ones
I love those
great find
Lee
06-25-2007, 03:07 PM
Where at in CO did you find them? Nice finds, took me a bit to find any I never see them every day, and they are all smaller. Guess you gotta go up into the mountains to see the bigger ones :*)
vegabond
06-25-2007, 09:54 PM
I live in gunnison, colorado. It is at 7,700 ft. I work on a house up the road a little bit, probably at 8000 ft, (but still in a valley) and honestly see them every day I am up there. recently the guys road caved in where the irrigation ditch goes underneath, and the garters have been loving that area. found a shed down in that spot today along with a few garters. I still have yet to find any other species in gunnison, but in colorado in general we have 26 species of snakes, just mostly lower in elevation.
Lee
06-27-2007, 09:39 PM
I've only seen wanderings aswell, haven't even seen any of the western dimondback rattlers I hear so much about all the time. Maybe I'm just an unlucky herper lol.