Pair of snakes in my yard (photos)

[ChrisH]

Oh, my, they are gorgeous! And great pictures, Jess! Thanks for sharing.

[ramanth]

Wow Jess!! It's so hard to find and photograph snakes in the wild and you catch two love struck pair!

Gorgeous photos.

[Lilith Cherry]

They are very beautiful! I get them in a wild part of my yard too( in Canada) and it is interesting to find shed skins looking like ghost snakes. Thanks for the pictures.

[RobiLee]

Awesome photos, Jess!

I usually have a couple of garter snakes in my yard every year but so far I haven't run into any. I have to say that I'm glad because I get a little freaked out by them...lol . Also Katie and Tori like to play with them so I'm glad we haven't run across any yet.

[Barbara]

They are so beautiful.
Thank you for sharing this story

[BitsyNaceyDog]

Those are such great pictures.

I'm so impressed you were able to get to your camera and get pictures before they disappeared. We have a lot of snakes in our yard and I always run for my camera in hopes of snapping a few pictures, but they're almost always gone by the time I get back.

[Medusa]

Wow, their coloring is beautiful! I'm not so sure I'd be that brave to get so close whether they're harmless or not. (I know, strange thing to say for someone w/the ID of Medusa, huh? I like snakes in culture, not necessarily up close and personal. LOL) Thanx for sharing these pix.

[K9soul]

Thank you for the comments and so glad you enjoyed the pictures. I was really thrilled to be able to watch them and get some really nice shots. Of course I wasn't as close as the photos of them are, I was using my 300 mm zoom lens, but I still was able to get closer than I would have thought without frightening them. I think they were just so caught up in their.. err.. relationship.. that they weren't as alert to the surroundings. I was standing on the sidewalk in my socks too and probably made no alarming vibration. I do know once the female got in the grass and I was following her, she suddenly seemed aware of me and took off.

Hopefully they will stay safe. A neighbor across the street from me a couple weeks ago was bragging to me about killing one in his yard . I hope he wasn't trying to impress me.