Its oh so quiet Shh Shh

[Snakers]

hope you feel better soon

[ConcinusMan]

Wait a minute, infernalis and Jeff can't possibly be referring to rhea's fall. Gotta be the "you are here" post.

[drache]

I am here now - getting to sneak in some computer time

anybody see this?
http://message.snopes.com/showthread.php?t=54663

[Stefan-A]

Nice to see that they're gentle with it.

[guidofatherof5]

It's a real shame it was killed.

[ConcinusMan]

Nature's little lawnmowers and fertilizers: (photo taken a couple of weeks ago in Vancouver, WA central park) Fort Vancouver High School and Clark College in the background. The Canadian geese have been getting quite a bit of attention lately. Sure is tempting to snag one for the dinner table but that would be highly illegal.

[drache]

It's a real shame it was killed.

the article does not actually state that this particular snake was killed
there's just a bunch of comments by people who start chatting about large rattlers that got killed
I do wonder what they did with this one
if they'd been the kind of people who kill them, they'd probably just shot it and taken the photos afterwards, so I'm hopeful for the snake

[ConcinusMan]

Hey everyone, take a look at this garter snake caught near seattle. I cannot think of any species it could possibly be other than ordinoides but regardless of species take a look at those stripes. AWESOME! (it's easier to download it and/or zoom in.)



It's on this website: http://www.seattlepestanimalcontrol.com/snake.htm

[ConcinusMan]

Hey guys I emailed the guy in the photo and that's his son. He says the snake was caught (3 of them) in Poulsbo, WA just north of Bremerton. That's dang near an island in the Puget sound. It's only connected to the mainland far to the south by a thread.

He's a wildlife removal guy and he says the snakes were living in a rock wall and the woman living there has a phobia and wanted them gone. I'm thinking, where there's 3 there's more but anyway, interesting. Right smack dab in the middle of puget sound out on a peninsula surrounded by sea water. it doesn't look like a puget garter to me so I thought it might be an ordinoides but that would be one awesome ordinioides if it is. Dark red dorsal stripe and yellow(?) lateral stripes? Awesome!

He says his brother has better photos and said he would see about sending them to me.

[Stefan-A]

Interesting dorsal stripe on that one. If it's not a T. elegans, it almost has to be T. ordinoides.

Another striped snake of that state would be Masticophis taeniatus. But it doesn't look like one of those.