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| Vince's new pet |
We often see garter snakes slithering for cover when we pick strawberries. They like to live under the plastic where it is warm and dry and full of food. They don't bother us and we don't bother them as they are a natural predator of our foes: the slug, the mouse and the bug. They are usually not "blog worthy," though. Until Vince spied this one caught in the bird netting we keep over the strawberries. It was so big I ran all the way up the hill to grab the camera while Vince freed it. It had seemingly just eaten a huge (hopefully slug!) lunch and couldn't fit through the holes in the netting. (Notice how fat it is on one end.) This is the biggest garter snake either of us had ever seen and it had an interesting blue tint to it that I failed to capture on camera.
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The best thing we could find as a scale was a beer bottle...hmmm.
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