Iowa T.s.parietalis Den

[Stefan-A]

Always fun to see snakes in the wild doing their thing, even if it's just in videos.

[ConcinusMan]

Always fun to see...in the wild doing their thing, even if it's just in videos.

"that's what he said"

But in all seriousness, WOW! great stuff, great footage Steve.

[infernalis]

Nice job Steve.. really enjoyed that.

[guidofatherof5]

I was very disappointed with the quality of the last video.
I did the job on my laptop and failed to render it at the highest quality.
The new video is cooking as I type.

[guidofatherof5]

This is much better. Will be deleting the other.

[ConcinusMan]

I didn't really notice anything wrong with the first one, but OK.

[guidofatherof5]

I did.

[Mommy2many]

Nice. I have never witnessed one first hand.

[ConcinusMan]

You still haven't. I did notice that there is a general misunderstanding that all garter snakes do this "mating ball" thing. I have seen thousands of snakes at the dens I have found, and a lot of snakes mating, but they just don't do that extreme mating ball thing like red sideds do. At most, you might find one female and two or three males courting her. I just don't see massive piles of males aggressively courting one female like red sideds do.

[guidofatherof5]

I've seen T.radix in mating balls also. Right outside my back door as a matter of fact.
I'm very fortunate to experienced these things.