Baby Garden Snake photo by Lindsey Hightower
Garden snake baby.This is a shot I took of a baby garden snake,also known as a garter snake,that my wife had caught in our yard to show me,this one is pretty new,they are not much smaller than this when just born.This was taken sept.2011,probably the last batch that will born this year,at least I have not seen any more new ones.We have garden snakes all over our yard in Oregon,but not too many,so I don’t kill them,but the outside cats do kill em.I will be walking out back to the garden,and suddenly I side step to keep from stepping on one,usually about ,three or four times bigger than this one.I see the adults now and then,some have a red stripe,and some have a green stripe.They like to warm up in the sun when not forging for food,that’s when we usually run into each other, by us almost stepping on them,they rear up,and stare at me,soon as I move again they zip off .
This is probably what the baby will look like when it grows up
Adult Garden Snake photo by Lindsey Hightower