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This is a great shot. Nancy saw this guy in the Peony bush and went for the camera and got a great series of shots. Snakes are hard to get pictures of. You almost have to stand around all day waiting to see one and you better have the camera ready to go, but this garter snake was relaxing on a nice summer day. I think snakes are really fabulous creatures and I like to play with them but with the little ones you have to be careful that they don’t bite you because their teeth are very delicate and easily damaged by biting you.
I think we have so many Garter snakes around, I've been told, is because they like to eat the wild strawberries in our yard. I don’t know if that’s true or not but it makes sense. Yes our yard is covered with wild strawberries, they’re only the size of a pea on a good day.

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I don’t know what kind of snake this is but it’s the “other” kind of snake I see the most of. This variety of snake is very aggressive unlike the friendly little Garter snake. These guys coil up and strike at you. If you wave your hand or a stick around in the air they will follow it like a cobra does the snake charmers flute but don’t get too close cause they do strike. Obviously it’s a very small, young snake or we have some gigantic leaves here in the northeast.
I happened across a larger one of these sunning himself in the road a few years ago and when I got out of the car to move him he kept biting at the stick I was poking him with. It took a while to convince him that it wasn’t a good idea to lay around on the nice warm blacktop but finally he moved into the ditch.