Ontario Herping!

Hey everyone!
I have been away this past week on a bit of a vacation, tent camping on Manitoulin Island in "Northern" Ontario. My partner stumbled across a garter snake one day, which lead to me unintentionally herping!
My partner's uncle has been camping on this particular piece of family land for some 38 years, and I am honoured to be the very first person ever to have hunted for snakes there - as he says! Of course I found a few other things along the way. Without further adieu...


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This one was found around the embers of the fire!
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Pond was full of these tadpoles/polliwogs
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Cute little thing.
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My partner showing off my third garter catch (I think). Feisty little thing was the only one to get a nip at me.
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Garter slightly larger than the last. I am terrible... cannot tell which type of Eastern/common garter it is!
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Largest snake I caught the whole trip! Another garter of some sort. Musked me something awful, too.
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And, my all time favourite... and also the first snake I caught, oddly enough... the smooth green snake! Very similar to the rough green snake found in the USA.
This beauty caught me so off guard. I was hunting down a garter I had seen sneak into a bush, and while I was peaking in I saw this one curled up in a circle, sitting in plain view atop a flattened tree branch. Too cool!!
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Thanks for looking - I had a blast! Can't wait to go herping again. :snake::gj:

So cool! Awesome finds! :gj:

Really nice. I used to spend a lot of Summers in the Upper Peninsula in MI. Caught a few smooth greens myself but I have to say that is the largest one I've ever seen. Nice find.

Thank you! There were tonnes of greens; nearly as many as the garters.

Very cool!


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