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I had neighbours years ago that were flat out terrified of snakes. The wife would make the husband go kill them with a shovel (blech). I hear her screaming one day and ran over to see what was wrong. Just a couple of garter snakes doing what comes naturally in their breeding season. Well they were trying to as best they could with Miss Hysterical jumping around screaming that they needed to be smacked to death with a shovel (double blech).
Btw it is not at all fun to try to move snakes that are wild and currently making with the happy snake thing but it was either that or see them killed by my idiot neighbours.
Re: What kind of snake....
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V1L3 DiaL3cT
That my friend is an Eastern Garter Snake.
That would be my first guess, too. We saw one last summer/fall in our yard.
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I'm in Micigan and I've caught everything from Easterns and Butlers to Black Rats and Blue Racers...
Looks just like my Eastern that I kept for about 6 years.
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patthesnakeman
Garters Flatten their neck?
They do not have any large size to them so they have to "bluff" thier way out of trouble some how :P
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sneakerpro... i'm in southwest michigan and i can tell you that it really takes some persistance (better luck with 4 or 5 people hunting) to find anything but garters in this state. april and may are the best months for most species in michigan. binoculars can help in the morning or around sunset when snakes are basking... usually rotting logs will yield salamanders and other wierd animals while things like tree bark, and grassy edges between the forest and a field will yield snakes. also, artificial cover (tin, junk, etc) will almost always have something underneath it if you're looking in the right spots at the right time of year. i'd say garters and ribbons, as well as red backed salamanders, account for 80-90% of my finds though.
