Whatta Cutie!

[ridewake210]

woke up the smorning to a smaller garder snake basking on the back patio

 

[downsouth]

I see I am not the only one that has wildlife stopping by from time to time. Glad to see you took advantage of the situation and snapped a couple of pictures!

 

[ridewake210]

yup. ende dup have'n to move him to our fire wood stock.

 

[Captain Retardo]

Man I see them all the time, although usually I go looking for them, If I wanted to I could easily find about 3-5 of them in half an hour, I actually kept one for about 2 weeks until my mom found out

That species that you found there is most probably a Plains Garter snake, or a very spotted looking Eastern Garter Snake.

Where do you live ridewake210?

 

[ridewake210]

oh wow.

yea our property use to be heavy vegitaion, brush, trees all that stuff. cleared it out on our own. its like an acre and 1/2, split it with my grandpa. use to see more of these lil fellers like 5 or 6 years ago when we were still pretty new around here. i mean, they're are plenty of places tohide and for them to live around here still. this is the 2nd one i've seen in about a month and 1/2. and this is the most i've seen in such a short amount of time in about 4 or 5 years. so they're not very common around here anymore.

im located in Central Illinois. home of the fighting illini. University of Illinois is located here.

 

[Captain Retardo]

Oh okay, Illinois, I will tell you what kind of garter snake it is tommorow, if you posted this 1 month ago I could have told you right away!

 

[ridewake210]

haha alright cool thanks

 

[Captain Retardo]

Ah nevermind, it is either Plains Garter of Common Garter, that is for sure...

The one that I brought home looked a lot like the one you found....They both have a more "spotty" appearance than other garter snakes.

 

[ridewake210]

gotcha, i can never remember what the ones look like in the past. only remember what they were.