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Garter snake 2025-10-09

This small snake was in the front driveway.

You can tell by comparison with the pine straw that the snake is quite small, maybe 8 inches long.

I think it’s an Eastern Garter Snake, Thamnophis sirtalis sirtalis.

What do you think?

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Maybe I should clean out that gutter more frequently.

I’m assuming an oak snake left that skin, but of course I assumed that about the snake that turned out to be a rattlesnake.

Anyway, I also had to remove the grapevine, because it had grown roots into the gutter, completely blocking it up.

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