First Garter of the Year!

[Didymus20X6]

Caught my first garter of the year!

I've noticed a bit of garter activity around the back fence lately. Well, a few days ago - on Good Friday, to be exact - I managed to catch this little guy.

I actually managed to catch her mere moments before the lawnmower guy showed up. I consider it my Earf Day good deed.

For now, the name's Scarlett.



Only about a foot and a half long, Scarlett has been very skittish. She has eaten a few nightcrawlers, and likes to spend her time bathing in the water enclosure.

Here she is hiding under some leaves.





Here she is with Little Dude. Little Dude is the big girl (the irony was unintentional).



I'm going to see how well she adapts to the enclosure, and then decide if I want to keep her or taker her off to the woods. Either way, I'm sure the neighbors won't mind me removing her.

[guidofatherof5]

Scarlett looks good.
Looks like she's going to be sheding soon.

[kibakiba]

It looks like the flash bouncing off of her eyes to me. Snakey's eyes do that when I take a picture of him when he's hiding. He almost looks like he'll shoot lasers out of his eyes sometimes. Haha.

Scarlett is pretty! I love the name.

[Didymus20X6]

I don't think so, Steve. Like Chantel said, it's just the flash glaring off the eyes. The eyes are still translucent, and she and Little Dude just had a couple of nice juicy toady frogs.

Thanks guys!

[drache]

beautiful - both
I forget - did you get Little Dude in the same place?

[Didymus20X6]

Rhea: yes. All the snakes I have caught have been in my back yard or in neighbor's yards.

[BLUESIRTALIS]

Good looking snakes!

[kibakiba]

Here, my boyfriend corrected the laser eye looking picture.

[Didymus20X6]

"I am looking for Sarah Connor! I'll be back!" {/Ahnold}

[Didymus20X6]

Look what I just caught! My first thamnophis of 2012! A little bitty booger, probably less than a foot long.

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