What snake is this?

[MJ_Bosley]

Sorry for the bad pic. I live in Colorado on the western slope (Glenwood-Grand Junction) and I saw this little guy. My family says it isn't a garter snake or a grass snake, amd I know it isn't a milk snake (obviously haha), so what is it? I am not a native born, so I have little knowledge on Colorado's snakes, and not a lot on all of the different snakes in general, so I have no idea. Could you help me out?

[MJ_Bosley]

I did some research and I think it is a night snake.

[Bee101]

Are its pupils vertically slit? Cool find!

[asplundii]

I did some research and I think it is a night snake.

As a CO native I can tell you it is not a nightsnake. What you have is a wandering garter, Thamnophis elegans vagrans.

[BPGator]

Asplundii beat me to it. I have a Wandering Garter and this is exactly what it looks like.


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[MJ_Bosley]

When i looked through the colorado snakes page it didn't have that on there, but okay. That's still cool!