Quote Originally Posted by Stefan-A View Post
Thanks, KitKat. Very useful.

Is eating mice becoming more common, or less common? Their strength has been the ability to change food source depending on competition and availability.
I guess part of my thoughts may not have been expanded enough, so I will briefly add...

There are almost NO amphibians on my property. There are surely no fish. There are mice, but they are Meadow Voles, which have a rather large skull for all but the larger garters.

Yet, we have a very healthy and abundant supply of garter snakes.

And given where I find them, they are eating worms as their primary food source.

I did catch a female gravid garter in a mouse nest once... but in captivity she refused to eat mice, including the baby Voles. She was dedicated to eating worms, and I had to teach her to eat fish.

Just a bit more info about what caused my thoughts... but I am not here to argue this thought as any kind of gospel.