Snake

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Eastern Ribbon Snake Thamnophis sauritus

Description 18-40" (45.7-101.6 cm). A slender, streamlined garter snake. 3 bright, well-defined stripes usually contrast sharply with dark back and sides. Side stripe involves 3rd and 4th scale rows. A dark, brownish stripe runs along margin of belly scales. Lip scales and belly unmarked. Tail very long, about a third of snake's total length. Scales strongly keeled, in 19 rows. Anal plate single.

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Taken at Wildwood Nature Center in Harrisburg PA. In a few days I'll submit another, with this fellow's brothers and sisters. Walking along we saw a whole group of them, say 6 or 8 of them, come out from under a couple of big rocks.........

This one closeup was the best shot of all of them, but I do have one shot where you can see four of five of them in one photo - but it's from a far away perspective and finding them is almost like an "I Spy" book where you have to find hidden things... So in a few days..........