I watched this baby Black Necked Gartersnake, Thamnophis cyrtopsis, try and fail to catch tadpoles in this pool for about a half hour. I really wanted to get a photo of him eating his prey, but he just wasn’t very good at it, and my real goal of the trip were the area’s blacktailed rattlesnakes. In the photo, he’s resting after the latest failed attempt.
Tags: black-necked, blackneck, cyrtopsis, garter, Gartersnake, snake, thammophis
