Lovely wild garter

[indigoman]

Ditto

[chris-uk]

My first instinct was T. elegans.

Interesting account of it actively swimming, considering garters are semi-aquatic surprisingly few people actually report seeing them swimming in the wild.

[acovert]

I've actually seen quite a few swimming in my years. I remember being at a smaller river connected to the clackamas river where I found one that was actively swimming before it caught a frog or something and rwtreating. And I've found a few in central oregon swimming as well. I was surprised more by the fact that it had come out in the water right on a river beach with around 20 or more people and quite a few loud dogs. Normally I've got an eye open for snakes, but I didn't yesterday because I figured they'd avoid the area. I was lucky my boyfriend saw it.