another ID ?

[vegabond]

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.

[ssssnakeluvr]

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!!

[GarterGuy]

Yep, just another colour variety of T.e.vagrans....like Don stated, they can by very variable. Very nice find!
Roy

[vegabond]

thanks guys, find them every day, and love em

[Thamnophis]

Very beautiful!

[Snaky]

Nice findings

[Stefan-A]

Nice indeed. For some reason the second one reminds me of a Storeria dekayi.

[drache]

nice ones
I love those
great find

[Lee]

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]

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.