Hello all,
I figured this was the best place to find my answers.

I live in Oregon near the coast and a few weeks ago while I was walking my dog in our front yard I noticed a small snake scurry a crossed the tall grass. I kind of figured it was a garter snake from its markings (although I'm no expert!).
Now it's been living next to our apple tree ever since. Everytime I walk my dogs, I see it, and say hello =P

Well the time has come where we need to mow the lawn and this will surely endanger him/her. I wanted to post a picture to hopefully get a positive ID that it isn't poisonous.. so I can attempt to move him, so I don't kill it when I mow.


Its not a very clear shot of him/her because our grass is so tall!

And also maybe advice on how to safely capture (Wish I could keep him/her but my wife is afraid of snakes in general) and release in my back yard (as we have a fairly large area of trees and undergrowth for it to live in safely).