New High Jump Record set!

[Antarctican]

By me....when I saw this guy slithered by near my hand as I reached to grab some weeds in the garden. Gardening promptly ended for the day.

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[Chiller]

:biglaugh::biglaugh::biglaugh:

Why, o , Why, was I not cycling by with my camera.

[mitica100]

Pretty! And harmless... :lol:

[sleepingdragon]

I don't blame you for jumping. I'd be out of there too. :lol:



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[invisible]

That looks like a garter snake. Have you considered having it as your new pet? :lol:

[MissMia]

He's cool looking! I'm glad you were able to get a shot of him.

[LaFoto]

Awww, what a pretty one! And still so small. More like a worm! :D
And you FIRST set that new high jump record and THEN had the presence of mind to go inside, get the camera out, and take this photo of snakey-with-his-tongue-out? Hats off to you! If that isn't total coolness about things, then I don't know what else is!?! (Or do you do garden work WITH the camera next to you at all times?)

[Antarctican]

^^^ I actually had the camera with me at the little garden plot that I rent. I figured I'd take pictures of whatever flowers had popped up (just some tulips and hyacinths so far. No sign of the daffodils...I either missed them, or squirrels ate the bulbs).

I have left the back strip of the plot 'wild' for the past 3 years, and after seeing the garter snake, I'm afraid it has a nest there with babies or something, that I'll mistakenly grab as I'm weeding. So when it comes time to clean out that area, I'm going to be stomping around a lot, to warn them to get away. I know they're harmless, but they startle/scare me and I scream like a little girl when I first see them. This one was a little over two feet long.

[René]

We're lucky, St Patrick banished all the snakes from Ireland!

[Tangerini]

:lol: Oh my I would have been startled too.
How cool that you even got an action (tongue) shot!

[Seefutlung]

Somehow, I think the scaring was mutual. Remember that Garter Snake = Less Mice, Rats and Slugs.

Gary

[PhotoJet]

Pretty! And harmless... :lol:

'harmless' and 'snake' should never be used in the same sentence. :batterup::batterup: Let alone 'harmless' and 'pretty'.

I'd have been done for the day, too... AND I would have gone to the yellow pages in search of an exterminator. Ugh. :irked: hahaha :lol:

[PhotoJet]

We're lucky, St Patrick banished all the snakes from Ireland!

Amen to that! :big grin:

[kundalini]

:biglaugh:

Just out of curiousity, did it sound like "AAAHHHH!!!!, eh?

Good thing you were able to get your hands from shaking long enough to take the pic. I like that you got the tounge out.

BTW, I'm in the camp that think snakes are good to have around. Beats the hell outta pesticides for keeping vermin away.

[Aggie]

If i don't have a weapon of grass destruction in my hand, and got past being startled I would have picked the darn thing up. If it rattled it would only get one tone out. The first rattler i met, was hamburger before it could shake it's tail the opposite direction. Interesting fact, boa constricktors and large snakes (I handled them in Venezuela) the male does have an outward genitailia. it is a little spike about the size of half your little finger's nail. Talk about .........

[Artograph]

LOL!!! We keep them as petssssss!!! :mrgreen:

OK....not really....but last year a nice little garter sssssnake family took up residence in our garage!!! The had to "climb" (:shock: Eeeeek!!!) up the cement (about 3 feet), and then took up residence in the unfinished wall. Their home was just behind a wood slat, near the electrical box.

They didn't (really) bother us....so we didn't bother them!!! LOL!! They raised their young and then moved on. I expect they may return this year...not sure!!

We are just outside a small town...kind of rural-ish....there is farm land behind our property. Fortunately.....:razz:..or unfortunately....the little slithering guys are all over the place!!! They do make me jump when they ssssneek up on me!!! LOL!! If I see them before they are near me...I'm 'OK'!! ....Good thing was...no mice in the walls this past winter!!!!

Edited to add.....when we had our cottage up on the Bruce Peninsula we had a rattle snake 'sunning' himself just beyond our back deck!!!! ...Didn't see him at first....opened the sliding door....and he shook his rattle at me!!! LOL!!! I closed the door and went back inside!!! (They SAY you are "lucky" if you see a rattler up there...as they apparently are dying off/being killed. I don't know....in all the time I spent up there....I was ummm...."lucky" about 3 or 4 times!!!)

[Antarctican]

I know they're harmless, I know they're good to have around, and I know they're as scared of me as I am of them, but they do startle/scare me. http://www.observedtrials.net/vb/images/smilies/ohnoes.gif

Once he moved and I was aware of where he was, I was okay to go get the camera and try to get his pic. But when I lost sight of him in the grass at the back of the garden plot, I wasn't going to start grabbing weeds with my hand in case I grabbed him (or an offspring) as well.

I've had a big albino boa (6 feet long?) draped across my shoulders at a charity event, and of course I had Lafoto's daughter's snake visit me when I was in Lauenbrück last year. But a 'snake charmer' I'm not!

[Artograph]

You know....I had a boa across my shoulders one time too!!! They are actually quite lovely!! LOL!! I think they are easy to "deal with" because they don't/can't "sneak" up you....

:O)

[doenoe]

snakes RoXoRz 'n stuff :mrgreen:

[Terri]

I would have made her faint by picking him up for a better shot. :love: Just a little ole garter snake, like the kind I've picked up for years in my back yard when I lived in Michigan.

They are evil-looking, though, I do understand why they freak people out. Kind of adds to the charm. :lol:

Good shot, btw, Anty!