We had some heavy heavy rains a couple weeks ago, so much so that the local streams and rivers were higher than I'd ever seen them before; incredible amounts of water!
I suspect that all that rain and rushing water was to blame for many a critter being disrupted and displaced, which could account for me running into so many snakes during a morning walk following a rainy night.
Of course I was in my glory, reliving my youth and wanting so bad to catch each and every one.
Here is a good size Northern Water Snake -
One of the biggest Northern Water Snakes I've seen -
A good size Eastern Garter Snake -
Another good size Eastern Garter Snake -
I saw others smaller Garter snakes but they didn't stick around for photos, nope they hightailed it outta there each time.
***UPDATE***
I still see the Garter snakes occasionally.
Sadly, heart breaking really, I came upon one of the Northern Water Snake pictured above dead in the street not far from where I took his picture only a couple days earlier. I moved it out of the road and back into the stream, so not to get hit and squashed repeatedly.
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