Herping for Garter snakes

[BLUESIRTALIS]

I have been looking for a few new eastern garters for some breeding projects. I went out this weekend in hopes of finding some and i found about seven garters and six northern water snakes. I decided to keep 2.2 of the garters so i will post pics soon. The two males i caught are real nice one has some greens/blues and the other is hypoish. The two females are real nice one has black bars behind her neck like a chicago garter and the other is stripeless. I can't wait to see what i get out of these guys.

[aodaisho]

13 snakes in a week-end... that' s a lot of fellows When you go harvesting that way do you have some restrictions like buying a permit or can you bring back whatever you want?

[BLUESIRTALIS]

I don't know of any restrictions, but i would not recomend keeping all of them because i don't like to take too many out of the wild. I just kept two pairs for breeding projects.

[guidofatherof5]

Water snakes are awesome.
Sounds like a good outing.

[BLUESIRTALIS]

The watersnakes was so glad to see me that they tried to eat my hands off.

[guidofatherof5]

The watersnakes was so glad to see me that they tried to eat my hands off.

They are so sweet. Any musk?
That's also sweet.

[BLUESIRTALIS]

Washed my hands ten times and i'm still wearing the fragrance.

[guidofatherof5]

The smell of success.

[RedSidedSPR]

The smell of success.

Darn right. I'd be lucky to find that many in a week! I love garter snakes and water snakes, but they are probably the snakes I find the least. I'm even thinking about keeping a banded water snake.... maybe...

Nice finds, man... well, I'm assuming they are... Post some pics.

[BLUESIRTALIS]

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Here is a pic of the stripeless female i kept for breeding. Sorry for the bad setup but it was late when i got home for herping so i just took a quick pic of this little beauty.