What kind of snake is this? The boys came in after they had taken some pictures of it. I was a little startled. It is a huge snake. They found it by the trees right outside of our apartment by the playground area. Before they ran up to get the camera they watched it eat a squirrel. Should I be grateful that it will keep any kind of rodent population down or nervous that there could be other large snakes in the area?
Friday, August 20, 2010
Snake!
What kind of snake is this? The boys came in after they had taken some pictures of it. I was a little startled. It is a huge snake. They found it by the trees right outside of our apartment by the playground area. Before they ran up to get the camera they watched it eat a squirrel. Should I be grateful that it will keep any kind of rodent population down or nervous that there could be other large snakes in the area?
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Yikes!! I did a little research, and it looks like it's a common garter snake. They can get as long as 42 inches. The info I read can be found here:
http://www.ct.gov/dep/lib/dep/wildlife/pdf_files/nongame/snkwebview.pdf
It's the first snake they talk about.
Yep, looks like a checkered garter snake to me, too.
it ate a squirrel? ahhhhh!!!!
I guess I always pictured garter snakes as the ones in Mom's yard. They must be water snakes? At least with Mom's snakes I never felt like they were going to bite your hand right off. Well I once had one bite my finger and it would not come off no matter how hard I shook it. I finally had to squeeze it's head to get the jaws to open. It was only 1/4 of this snakes size. I do not want to have to try and remove a snake from one of the kids. Hmmm Where is Craig???
I know, that snake looks way scarier than what I picture a garter snake being. I had no idea that they could get that big. I don't care what kind of snake it is, if it's that big, I don't want anything to do with it!!
I didn't know garter snakes got that big. Yikes!
That is a scary looking snake, and eating a squirrel puts it in my "stay away from me" category. But isn't a garter snake what I thought it was before I saw the picture? If so, right on mom!
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