My winter project was transferring all our home movies from tape onto DVD’s. I’ve only just started 1996, because I’m trying to be artsy with scene changes and DVD menus, etc... Anyhow, while capturing videos I’ve also been grabbing some frames and thought these were interesting to share. These are from spring, 1995, but it’s the same every year. If you like snakes and even if you don't (these are garter snakes) this is really a sight to behold. The spring migration of the snakes will soon be here again. There are even tunnels built under the highway so that so many snakes no longer get killed. Narcisse Snake Dens are approximately 100 km (60 miles) north of Winnipeg.
The pictures start at a distance and zoom in closer:
That was from just one of TONS of dens. You’re allowed to pick them up, but you must use 2 hands. Honestly I don’t like snakes and had never picked one up before, but it was just too cool.
It's here in the Interlake area that you can see more snakes at a glance than anywhere else in the world. For two brief periods each year tens of thousands of red-sided garter snakes congregate at the surface of their winter dens.
Quoted from government info site:
http://www.gov.mb.ca/conservation/wildlife/managing/snakes_narcisse.html
The pictures start at a distance and zoom in closer:
That was from just one of TONS of dens. You’re allowed to pick them up, but you must use 2 hands. Honestly I don’t like snakes and had never picked one up before, but it was just too cool.
It's here in the Interlake area that you can see more snakes at a glance than anywhere else in the world. For two brief periods each year tens of thousands of red-sided garter snakes congregate at the surface of their winter dens.
Quoted from government info site:
http://www.gov.mb.ca/conservation/wildlife/managing/snakes_narcisse.html
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We tried to kill that one because it was near a place where we played alot. He crawled into the wall but later that week the neighbor ran it over with the lawn mower.