Look what I found

[jitami]

(please excuse the photo quality. Forgot my real camera in the other car and had to use my cell phone)

Went for a drive yesterday and saw this little pond and thought it looked like perfect garter habitat...





Shanley, remember when we were talking about piled up rocks for den sites?



In this pond we found not one, but three T.e.elegans, all eating their fill of tadpoles. Can you see it? This was the bigger of the three...



more to come....

[jitami]

The two others were both little yearlings and I couldn't resist a closer look at this little girl... (darned cell phone won't do close ups)






It was so tempting to keep her, but it would put me at my limit for elegans, and I'm fairly certain it was a little girl, so housing her with Sly would be out of the question. Hopefully she'll stay here and we can visit her again. Bye bye little one...

[jitami]

One more picture from the same area. Shows a bit of our lovely California Smoke. Air quality has improved quite a bit where I live, but it was still pretty bad up in the mountains.

[dashnu]

What a nice area and great find! In my area snakes love the rocks for Dens.

..also i cant see the snake in the first pictures.

[jitami]

Thanks Brett. I can't either in the first two of the pond. They're in there, but those pictures were more to show the pond. In the fourth picture(last one in the fist post) keep looking, one of the three is visible. Pic quality doesn't help, but I like the camouflage pictures. It shows how even though the snakes have these bright yellow stripes they blend into their natural surroundings perfectly.

[Zephyr]

Left and a little down from that orange thing in the water.

[dashnu]

i see it now... that would be a fun thread.. "Find the snake Thread"

[Loren]

very nice. Looks just like mine.

[GartersRock]

Oh oh!! I see it!

[crzy_kevo]

nice find i wish i had something like that near here