My first!

[SkinnyPete]

Just picked this little one up last night. (I live in Southern Oregon)
It was cruising across my father in laws hay field, we usually find a few of these there every year. This one was small enough and my daughters are very enamored with it, so I decided to bring it home. Right now it's in a 1 gallon tank with some repti-bedding and a deli cup for hiding and a saucer with water. Took a few hours, but it settled right down and is chillin and watching us calmly.
It's still very small, probably only 12in long and the diameter of a pencil.
Now my question is what variety is it? (pic below)
(Please excuse my "IT" connotation, but I have not sexed it yet, so I don't know if it's Male or Female)

Thanks for any help!
Pete

[guidofatherof5]

Here's a link that might help you sex the snake or at least show you the kind of photos to post if you would like us to help.
http://www.thamnophis.com/forum/bree...xing-pics.html

[Selkielass]

How pretty! Lovely contrast with those red spots.
I wont guess species- I 'll leave that to people who know your side of the country better than I.

[GarterGuy17]

Looks like a red sided to me ( thamnophis sirtalis parietalis ) Pretty healthy looking , If you show us a picture of the underside tail area we could give you a pretty good answer of what the sex is

[snake man]

Looks alot like a red sided.

[joeyjoe9876]

kind of looks like my redsided a bit, very nice looking!

[SkinnyPete]

Just powered down a good sized Nightcrawler! From the field to eating in the cage in 24hrs! Awesome!

[guidofatherof5]

That's always a good thing.

[ProXimuS]

I'm not great on ID's yet, but I wasn't thinking Red-sided. I tried to look up the range of the parietalis, and it doesn't look like they range into Oregon. I was thinking more like a fitchi or a concinnus. I'm sure some of our Northwesterners can help more

[ssssnakeluvr]

not a red sider, they don't range that far west. definitely a valley garter, thamnophis sirtalis fitchi