Almost ran this little fella over coming down the trail this morning! Three feet long and a Garter snake I believe. Whatever it was it gave off the WORST smell you can imagine…obviously a defense mechanism. Second snake I caught in the last couple weeks! They’re starting to come out lately. 
OMG THAT’S a snake, it’s coolhisss
I don’t usually agree with your silly posts… but that was very funny lol 
Is it poisonous or anything?!? [us brits only get grass snakes (i think anyway… water snakes maybe?) and i’ve never seen one, so I don’t know much…]
Nah, it’s a harmless garter snake. Very common in these parts.
I want to find a california king snake; (like the one below) those are beautiful and make great pets, but if I do find one I won’t keep it. They need to be there to keep the rats and rattlesnakes in check.
I got bitten by a garter snake once. Right through my toe nail, hurt like hell with the blood pressure accumulating under the nail. I usually stay away from slithery things now.
That’s really unusual since Garters don’t have fangs. Just small tiny rows of teeth used to pull prey into their mouths to swallow whole. But Garters are notorious for being very nasty and agressive and they will bite if provoked.
That doesn’t look like the gartner snakes we have around here.
Looks like a Garter snake to me.
EDIT: If I remember right, arent there about 12 types of garter snakes?
There are MANY types of garter snakes. This looks like the one I caught today:
http://www.werc.usgs.gov/fieldguide/thha.htm
Also see the “additional notes” about how it excretes a foul smelling musk when handled; exactly what happened to me lol! 
I’ve caught about three snakes before (not at the same time of course). Two of them were a type of garter and they were about two feet long. The other, I’m not so sure about… Might have been a baby garter or something… It was small… Couldn’t have been more than five inches long.
Cool! Looks like a corn snake, but I’m not sure. Don’t think it’s venomous.
Just in the past year I’ve caught about 5 king snakes, 3 gopher snakes (one almost 6’ long!) 2 ringnecks and then a couple years back about 3 rattlers! For every 1 you see in a given area, there’s probably hundreds you don’t see!
Can’t believe it has been two & 1/2 years since I ran across this guy. Seems like yesterday.
As a kid we used to go Garter hunting (catch and release) quite a bit. Out of the scores of snakes we caught, only one was aggressive and struck at me; that one had a red strip too so it may not have been a Garter.
I catch snakes when I see them but I can play with one any time I feel like it. I will have to get some pictures of my pet snake sphinx. He is a ball python over 5 feet and he is awesome. (good at keeping annoying people out of my room also.) It is always fun when your tie moves and people freak out.
We keep snakes, have about 10 different ones, all australian species aswell as millions of other critters; giant centipedes, giant cockaroaches, stick insects, tarantulas and scorpions
Plus our birds and dogs, we have a big family:)
In Galloway, SW Scotland, where I grew up, you get loads of adders. Britains only poisonous snakes. The only snakes I’ve ever seen in the wild have all been adders, so I tend to stay away from anything slithery. Just in case.
I had a mate who had a fooking massive snake, a big constrictor of some type. It was 14ft long and as thick as your thigh. If it wanted to, it could have gotten out of it’s (flimsy) cage/tank and killed the whole family as they slept. That guy was a nutter. (the owner)
T.
Grass snake, smoothe snake and adder are the only three in this country. The adder is lethally poisinous, but easily treatable, the last death was in 1986 i believe. I’ve seen a number of adder skins in the woods over the years, a couple of dead grass snakes and a live one that went to ground in our garage, but never whilst unicycling.
there is three snake species in Tassie. All three posioness and two are capable of killing someone.
Tiger Snake,
Copper head Snake
White Lipped Snake
Have never seen a white lipped snake, the other two can kill me 
i stepped on a tigersnake once but it didn’t bite me… i was lucky i guess. I just give anything with no legs a wide berth.
Black mumbas can travel at 60km/h and when they do there whole body goes rigid, like a speeding pipe/stick thing. 
lols
Here’s today’s catch!
This guy was literally sleeping right in the middle of the trail as I approaced, but at first I thought it might have been run over by a biker and might be dead. Nope. I picked it up and it suddenly sprung to life…and seemed a little hungry lol!
Alligator Lizard:
