Northern Redbelly gave birth

[BLUESIRTALIS]

Most garters here in South carolina are usually found early in the morning basking, under debris, or road cruising. I find around 150 to 300 snakes a year and i only average around 6 or 7 garters here it's nothing like the redsideds and radixes.

[RedSidedSPR]

Well, I find about 8 a year, and none are garters slight exaggeration but still...

[Kantar]

It's the total opposite for me, I find about 300 snakes a year and found 1 different species in 4 years

there are 2 different species of garters, northern redbellies, smooth green snakes and western hognosed snakes here

[RedSidedSPR]

Pretty much all I find are: black rat snakes, rough green snakes, ringneck snakes, worm snakes. I've only found two garter snakes my whole life, and I wasn't even herping. They weren't in NC though... I was on vacation both times.

[Mrs N1ntndo]

The place I found her at is a hibernating spot for northern redbellies and newborn garters. Its a tree stump sticking out of the ground with a hollow inside, and the roots gave the land around it a bit of a upheaval. I visit that spot every time I go out there. Just before the weather gets too cold, a woman, I call her old lady leary places some hay around the stump to insulate it a bit better.

I can't wait to go out there this weekend its baby garter season. All the females are pretty gravid and ready to give birth. Instead of finding 6 snakes in a day I'll be seeing baby garters all over the place, hundreds of them

It's baby T.radix time here in Iowa. Many babies out and about.

Even if it is in the wild take pics please

[guidofatherof5]

Even if it is in the wild take pics please

I haven't seen any yet in my back yard.
I have received a few reports from my local spotters.

[ConcinusMan]

I've heard that redbellies just don't make it at all in captivity, but that's just what I hear.

[Kantar]

Its stressing me out, is why I can't wait to bring them out to a certain spot and release them. I'll maybe keep just 1 or 2 babies, it would be more managable

the mother never ate in almost 5 weeks even though she tried swallowing down a nightcrawler piece but never finished swallowing, just lets go of it. Only witnessed one of the babies eat, but this time I cut up the nightcrawler into very tiny pieces and scattered the pieces around the enclosure, came back a couple hours later and noticed a few more pieces gone

[ConcinusMan]

Well that's not all bad news. You probably got farther than most people who have attempted to keep them. If you know where mom was found I don't see anything at all wrong with taking them right there and releasing them. I would do it near sundown and where there's plenty of cover or a place for them to hide.

[Kantar]

yeah I was planning on releasing when dew starts forming on the grass

Its cute when they all sleep, all of them were hiding in the tiny white cardboard thingie I made when I turned on the light they all poured out of there within a minute and wandering around