I would normally be adding these pics to "concinnusman's garters" thread but most of the time that thread is dead ( 404 Not Found error) and the issue still isn't resolved. Sometimes it's there, but mostly it's not.

Rather than making another thread I'll just slip this picture in here:

Here's the mighty little wandering garter that swallowed an adult mouse. Found her in Chehalis (Lewis County). Makes me wonder why they don't range south to Portland. It's the same ecoprovince (Puget Lowlands) all the way south along I-5 to the Columbia River but these only seem to range south as far as Lewis County. Hmmm... I wonder why. They are just as frequently found as northwesterns and pugets.

Note 8 upper labials, not 7.

T. elegans vagrans: