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this guy thought hummingbirds would be better than mice

almost ran this one over with the lawnmower. we let the grass get a little to long in the back yard. i saw a big brown flash killed the mower and saw this one with the mouse still in its mouth. after all that stress it just stayed right there and ate the mouse like nothing happened.

Those are really cool pics, as you can imagine lots of people on this forum now wanna come for a visit. Tom Stevens
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Hi Slimforte,

nice pictures!
Thus the pic of the second post is a garter snake...

The coloration of your bull snakes is interesting. Your garter snake helps me not really to local your home area.
But this kind of bull snake lives in the North of the USA.
I guess Illinois or Indiana - Maybe Wisconsin?
Am I right?

Bernd
www.pinesnake.de

Looks more like Texas to me. Ken

i'm in Castle Rock, CO. also what makes you say that the second is a garter snake. i happen to be from MN originally and our garters look nothing like that. also from a different view i remember it had a dimond patern on it's back.

-T

after going to the garter snake page i think i see the difference. i never spent the time with looking at the snakes here to see that they do look quite different.

-T

i beleive thats a wandering garter thamnophis elegans vagrans in the second pic, they will readily eat rodents in captivity id be suprised if it killed that mouse or if it was carrion, the bull by the bird feeder is classic have you seen him get any hummining birds? now that would be a cool video,,,,,,,thomas davis

it is a western terrestrial garter. good eye. the snake was about 24" long tough to say if it was able to kill the mouse itself though. after i put the pics up and got a little feedback i did quite a bit of research today. i learned alot about the little guys i'll be seeing out back this summer. thanks for all the input from everyone.

-T

I wouldn't be suprised if it took advantage of a mouse that was injured or killed from the lawn mower. The crows used to hang out around my tractor and pick off the field rats, little snakes, lizards, and bugs that I would stir up. Their favorite seemed to be the rats! I wonder if a snake could be intelligent (or lucky) enough to be trained to stick around during lawn mowing time without being run over?

Those are great pics. Nothing beats seeing a Pituophis in the wild. Keep em coming,they are awesome.

Killer looking.I say go for it.Catch one and learn how to avoid being bitten.lol.Murph

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