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Cynthia Crawford | profile | all galleries >> Garter Snake in the Winter- Vermont- a sad tale tree view | thumbnails | slideshow

Garter Snake in the Winter- Vermont- a sad tale

I found this little snake in a snowshoe path behind my house on Christmas day. It was alive, but very sluggish. It looked like it's tail was perhaps injured. It was near a culvert where I am guessing it might have been pulled out by a predator. We have fox, fisher , coyotes, owls and ravens here. I put it under a tree root, hoping it would take shelter, but the next day I found it dead in a footprint about 3 feet from the root. All the photos are of the dead snake, taken primarily for the record, as I was asked to document it for the Vermont Reptile and Amphibian Atlas: http://community.middlebury.edu/~herpatlas/
Dead Garter Snake in the snow-footprint
Dead Garter Snake in the snow-footprint		 Tree Root Hiding Place
Tree Root Hiding Place		 Dead Snake-closer view
Dead Snake-closer view		 Dead snake close-up of head
Dead snake close-up of head
Dead snake underside
Dead snake underside		 Water going to culvert near where snake was found
Water going to culvert near where snake was found

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