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I did about 20 minutes of herping at a spot near my house today and found some cool Eastern Garters.

The first one that I came across was this juvenile, underneath a rock. It wasted no time going into "body flattening mode."

A little while later I flipped a few roofing shingles and found two big garters right next to each other. This one had a very "clean" appearance and looked like it had recently shed. It had a stub tail (not seen in photo).

After photographing the first snake, I went back to the shingles to find the second snake. I only caught a glimpse of it the first time around and its "orangish" coloration had me thinking it was a milk snake. But it was an unusually-colored garter.

Here's one more photo of it. Like the garter found with it, it had a stub tail (which was somewhat bloody). This snake reminded me of the one Jeff Cochran posted last month.

It was a good day to go gartering!
Third Eye

3 totally different types of color /patterns....cool....

northerns are sooo variable.....(they are like that here in PA also...from dark black-ish to light and alot of yellow...)...

...I need to get out.....(last week...250 miles on truck, 3 different mountains, 1 water and 1 copperhead is all we found, with a black rat on road,curled,not sure of life condition)...

.,,.good luck....now go find a real milk.....(friend went last night to a small place....1 milk 1 racer and 3 ringnecks...)...

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Nice finds, that orange one is nice, looks like his tail was also bloody?
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Jeff Benfer
gartersnakemorph.com

Nice finds ! The second snake pictured looks very similiar to an albino (w/out the pink eyes) that was found in Canada many years ago (AKA caramel albino).

Scott
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Albino Garter Snake