Herping for Garter snakes

[charles parenteau]

NIce find!!Keep the snake until she have her babies probably you will have very nice orange garter snake babies!!!

[aodaisho]

Excuse me my lack of knowledge but what do you mean by "maritimes"?

You are quite lucky to look for your own breeding stock.That's a kind of dream for me to do that.

Do you do, guys, a deworming when you catch new snakes or do you have a more passive attitude like "wait and see"?

[guidofatherof5]

Maritime Garter Snake (Thamnophis sirtalis pallidulus)
Awesome snakes. Wish I had a couple.

I deworm any rescued snakes that come into the Ranch.

[ConcinusMan]

Maritime Garter Snake - Thamnophis sirtalis pallidulus

[RdubSnider]

Found this girl today. Although its hard to capture in the photo the red in her is like fire engine all the way down her.

[BLUESIRTALIS]

Nice looking girl.

[RdubSnider]

I don't know what's going on but I'm finding at least one eastern almost every day while I'm working. The funny thing is I'm constantly in different areas daily and I'm not really evan looking.

[ConcinusMan]

Just lucky I guess?

[BLUESIRTALIS]

Mike and i have met up twice to hunt for garters but the odds have been against us both times so far. First trip we found three northern water snakes and the second trip we found a gray cheeked salamander, 3 or 4 red efts, some frogs, 6 or 7 bark scorpions, a nice looking mantid, and an adult northern copperhead. This second trip was pouring down rain but we decided to hunt anyway since we were so determined. We still had a great time.

[mikem]

Yep, other than a little bit of car sickness towards the end there, I enjoyed it a lot! We will be herping more in the future Most of my pics came out blurry I need to invest in a decent dslr camera and lens. That black widow hanging out on the bottom of that log was a cool find as well!