Just caught today

[brain]

the weather is holding in the 60's today rain coming again Saturday. But while I was out puttin down grass sed this cutie tried to snaek past me. I seen her out of the corner of my eye ... finished what i was doing a got my pet container. enjoy

[guidofatherof5]

Great looking snake.
Stop calling HIM cutie

[Hornets23]

Sweet...very nice looking.

[zooplan]

Nice male with an impressive thick eyeline,
even for ´ordinoides.

[brain]

Not a Her a HIM L. Oh well I keep “her” if “she” will eat.
Yea Udo, I though the same about the black markings along side of the eye. And I do like the light orange ticking.

[ConcinusMan]

And I do like the light orange ticking.

I see that a lot on snakes around here. The challenge is finding one with solid colored orange or red stripes. I just love those but so hard to find. Not too common, at least not around here.

I found these two lookers a few days ago. Nice enough to give them a try and see if they eat and do well in captivity. If not, back they go. There's nothing as sweet as when they are lookers AND adapt and eat well. When they do, they tend to be very tame, sweet, and even comical pets full of character. I just love them.







These two would have made a good pair but they're both female. I hope they do well. If they do, I will deworm them and send them along to a forum member or two that have been waiting patiently to get some of these. They know they are.

[ConcinusMan]

Of course you all know Miss Piggy. She's so darn neato, in both looks and personality that I am extremely attached to her. Any offers for her would have to be quite high for me to give her up and even then, I don't know. There's a lot of northwesterns around here but she's one in 10 million special to me. She was tame the minute I picked her up. No fussing, no musking.

[kibakiba]

The one at the top looks like Snakey with a brown background. The belly is exactly the same as his, too.

[d_virginiana]

You guys are so lucky! We have hardly any garters around here just wandering around.. Of course, we have a TON of kingsnakes, so it's an okay trade-off but still... Very nice snakes, especially the red-striped ones!

[ConcinusMan]

Yeah, go to the right spots and there's literally hundreds of northwesterns slithering around on any sunny morning. Lots of different colors and patterns. If you find a place where they are that has boards or tin lying around, you can flip and find dozens of them. At least 90% of them are very small snakes, 6-18 inches.

Not only that, go just about any place near a permanent body of water and some amphibians and good habitat, and you'll find plenty of concinnus' around. Now those are much bigger of course and not as variable as the northwesterns. Not uncommon for me to take a walk by a creek and spot 3 footers. I guess I am kinda lucky. All I have to do is find appropriate habitat on a sunny morning and I'm guaranteed to find plenty of garter snakes.

Can't wait to see what I'm going to find near Ft. Lewis, WA next month.

I'll also be herping Sparks/Reno NV area near the end of this month, and Champoeg State Park (Oregon) in June. Plenty of rubber boas and alligator lizards at the park I hear.