October 2009 Photo & Caption Comments Thread

[Stefan-A]

Thanks for pointing that out. It seems to be a Natrix.

[GarterGeek]

Thanks for pointing that out. It seems to be a Natrix.

Doesn't it look more like Nerodia? I'm not very good with identification, but from this head-shot it looks just like a Nerodia Sipedon I rescued over the summer.

[Stefan-A]

Doesn't it look more like Nerodia? I'm not very good with identification, but from this head-shot it looks just like a Nerodia Sipedon I rescued over the summer.

That was my first thought, but the preocular scales didn't seem right.

[GarterGeek]

That was my first thought, but the preocular scales didn't seem right.

Those are the scales around the eyes, right? I'm sorry, I'm still working on my terminology.
What didn't seem right about them? I'm not sure what to look for...

[Stefan-A]

Those are the scales around the eyes, right? I'm sorry, I'm still working on my terminology.
What didn't seem right about them? I'm not sure what to look for...

Yeah, the scales just in front of the eye. Garters tend to have one scale, in some cases two and it appears to be the same with Nerodia.

[wadih]

Hmmmm.... This is really strange.

This is one of the first snakes I bought and I always knew that it was a young garter male snake. Although I noticed some differences between it and my other garter snakes, but I am sure that when I bought the snake I asked for a garter. In fact now I am not sure what is it !!!

In all cases here is a bigger picture for it, maybe it will be easier to identify it.

Hopefully my next month picture will be accepted in the contest