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Found this one while scanning in some old 35mm pics from some old field trips. It is an event that many field herpers have witnessed.
One of you fine folks recanted this same tale somewhere on this forum, and, to you, I apologize because I couldn’t remember who, where or when.
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This time it happened in Cherry County Nebraska.
A frog, probably a Northern Leopard Frog, challenged a Buick to the right of way and lost.
The dead frog subsequently dried out and adhered to the pavement.
Along comes one of your heroes, a Western Plains Garter Snake, and decides it has found a very slow frog, an easy meal.
It starts eating the frog and along comes this “fish-eyed fool” of a herper and stops to see what all the commotion is about.
The haydenii let me get within a yard before it finally gave up on its meal.
It's timing was good since there was another car in its lane on the way!
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Please tell if you’ve had similar experience.
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Regards, Bill McGighan

That's not unusual...I have a picture in my collection of garter snake photos of one eating a roadkilled bird.

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Your absolutely right that it's not that unusual.
This one just tickled me at the time because the frog was stuck to the road and the snake wouldn't give it up even in the face of a human close by.
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Regards, Bill McGighan

A biologist friend of mine was telling me how he found plains garters trying to eat whatever DOR prey they could find... And they never gave up and therefore almost got ran over plenty of times.
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Mike
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so i guess its safe to say garter snakes = not smart hah. anywhom, the place i go to catch snakes has a lot of huge bullfrogs. the smaller snakes and ribbon snakes are scared of them. once i accidently scared a ribbon snake into a bullfrogs mouth. it tried to pull the snake under water for about 10 minutes then realized it was too big. the snake was injured but survived. and another time i was about to grab a ribbon out of a bush and it was hesitant to move cause it had to choose from getting caught by me or getting swarmed by bullfrogs from the marsh bellow.

k im done..discuss

saw a dor cottonmouth trying to eat(or was at least examining) a discarded chicken bone,then got run over himself.last year near gainesville,fl.
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"with head raised regally,and gazing at me with lidless eyes,he seemed to question with flicks of his long forked tongue my right to trespass on his territory" Carl Kauffeld