BC and Albertan gartersnakes

[ti-pite]

merci James, vous etes bien gentil.

I had garters as a kid, plains, red sided, etc. Found in the bush near my parents' cabin at the lake in northern alberta.

I'd love to start again and get my kids into it. Fond memories that they could have one day.

[Thamnophis]

Hello Ian, welcome here. Nice pictures.

[adamanteus]

merci James, vous etes bien gentil.

De rien. Bienvenue ici.

It is nice to make plans for your childrens' happy memories!

[Lulu Bennett]

lol welcome to the forum sweety its nice to have you here.

ti-pitemerci James, vous etes bien gentil.

adamanteusQuote:
Originally Posted by ti-pite
merci James, vous etes bien gentil.

De rien. Bienvenue ici.

and in english lol

[joeysgreen]

Hello Piere, the garter den is northwest of Stony by Lake Eden. You probably won't see anything this time of year, but everywhere in the area is full of red sided garters. Keep in touch, and I'll show you in the spring exactly where it is (so much easier than trying to explain it). In addition to here, I'm a member of the Edmonton Reptile and Amphibian, the forums are down now, but will be up near the end of this month.

Ian

[ti-pite]

Hi Ian,

This is very interesting. I will definitely take you up on that generous offer.

I will be looking out for the edmonton reptile & amphibian forum.

Pierre

[Odie]

Hi, from Oregon, Pierre

[ti-pite]

Hi Odie from Oregon.

You or other pacific coasters might have an idea regarding my next question. I was visiting Galiano island, just east of Vancouver Island, in July with the family. We came across about half a dozen garter snakes while hiking, one in a tidal pool, two up in a mountain, the rest in wooded lowland areas. I do not know what type they were. They were all the same colour. Mostly a drab greyish colour with lighter colour stripes. One of them was quite tame and allowed the kids to stroke him gently on the back of the head for a couple of minutes.

We wanted to take him home with us but I pointed out to the kids that we had no way of properly caring for it during the long trip back to edmonton.

Pierre

[adamanteus]

Could have been T. ordinoides or T. s. pickeringii...a photo would help. I don't suppose you took pictures?

[ti-pite]

Our 15 month-old grabbed & dropped our new canon camera in the sand at the beginning of the trip!!! camera broken, full of sand. No pix. But no worries, the nice people at Canon in Calgary fixed it for free!!

I just found a picture on the net that most resembles what we saw. It is ordinoides according to the source. I tried to upload it here but my computer keeps jamming.