Skittering Babies... Everywhere!

[Kantar]

The past week I was out exploring around Stephenfield Provincial Park / Roseisle, MB / Learys, MB / St. Lupicin, MB and there were babies everywhere, I probably spotted about 300 of them but only caught maybe 50 just to hold them and let them go again. At my parents place I removed an old wood pile and checked back at the spot a day later, about 10 babies go skittering away from that spot.

I never spotted a wild albino though, it would be super cool to find one

[katach]

Very cool! I've never seen a wild baby. The youngest I've seen was probably about a year old.

[guidofatherof5]

Are we talking about T.s.parietalis(Red Sided Garter Snake) ?

[Kantar]

a mix of them

red sided, eastern plains, great plains

[guidofatherof5]

You're freaking me out again with that Great Plains and Eastern Plains stuff.

Did you mean.
T.s parietalis (Red Sided Garter Snake)
T.s.sirtalis (Eastern Garter Snake)
T.radix (Plains Garter Snake)

[d_virginiana]

Geez, I never see a wild any-sort-of-garter Sounds like you had a good day!

[RedSidedSPR]

Awesome. You lucky dog.

[kibakiba]

We used to find hundreds of babies under a rock in our yard in the spring. I think it was a snake den until some spiders took up residence there. There are some big azz spiders that are also aggressive if you walk by the entrance.

[Mommy2many]

Too bad garter snakes don't eat spiders...

[kibakiba]

Yeah, I kind of wish they did! I always wanted to lift the rock up and see if there were tunnels and everything, but it's 500 + pounds.