Ok here's one.....The one pic of the Eastern Garter (T.s.sirtalis) from my T.s.sirtalis gallery...the one from Grubb Lake that's a large close up. Me and my wife were just hiking around the lake for the first time, just a relaxing stroll. There's a 1mile walking/running path around it. Of course I've got the digital with me, never go outside with out it during the warmer months..LOL.
As we're walking around, I keep hearing grass rustling just off to the sides of the path. As we keep going along, I see it's garters that are basking on the path and then rushing into the weeds as we approach. I wasn't able to catch, either with hand or lense, any of them 'til we came up to this area where there was a bit of a hill. This one garter took off, but couldn't climb up the hill....so I reach out and grab it. It procedes to shoot backwards over it's self and tries to bite me. I drop it and then quickly grab it again and plop it out on the path. All the while my wife is shrieking...she doesn't mind snakes in cages....but in the wild is different. After being put in the path, the garter just coils up and sits there, waiting for a fight. I clicked off some great pics....and then stepped back and it went on it's way. It was really funny how such a little snake stood it's ground once it was "exposed".....garters really have attitude, just something more to love about them.
Roy