Mountain Garter
07/31/2006 @ 10:22:54 AM MDT
This western terrestrial garter snake (Thamnophis elegans) was found at about 9000 ft. on the Rio Santa Barbara trail in the Pecos Wilderness section of the Carson National Forest, near Penasco, NM. I'm very lucky to live so close to such incredible wilderness, but unfortunately, the Pecos Wilderness offers very little in the way of herptofauna, so this little snake was an incredibly lucky find.
posted by guruphiliac @ 2:31 PM
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Wonderful blog... Looking forward to more pics and write-ups...
ohh nice shot .. is anti venom stuff easily available in your area?
All the local hospitals have rattlesnake anti-venin, but you wouldn't need any if you were bit by this harmless garter snake.
Nice Blog you have there.
Days of my life
You should check out some Australian terrain
My best herper friend just moved to Townsville with his wildlife biologist wife. He's going to get cozy with the herpetological dept. at Cook University. Then I'm going to show up sometime in the next year and go snake crazy down unda'.
Thanks for having these super good pics. We just moved to Tijeras, NM and I'm all about trying to ID the snakes and lizards we've got here on our property. Your photo of this cute little guy really helped.
I'm fairly new to Tijeras. We live on the edge of a large section of pinion/cedar wilderness. Saw a snake in the road while walking the dogs. Pretty plain looking brown markings sort of like your garter snake but the head seemed to be distinctly triangular.. there were no rattles. Fairly passive snake letting us look at him from a safe distance before slowly moving off. Need a good snake ID book.
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