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Wildlife Reports => Toronto Wildlife => Topic started by: BC on April 30, 2007, 06:19:01 PM

Title: Melanistic Garter Snake-Leslie Street Spit
Post by: BC on April 30, 2007, 06:19:01 PM

I'm afraid this report is a week old. On Sunday, April 22, I was walking the Spit with a friend. I spotted an all black snake on the path that leads to the banding station. It stayed still for several minutes, behind a tree, and a young woman who had been working at the banding station came up and looked at it. She believed it was a melanistic Eastern Garter Snake, specimens of which have been seen at the Spit and on the Toronto Islands. My internet research produced the following link to a photo of one on Pelee Island.
http://thamnophis.tribe.net/photos/dd2d ... 71eb503e7c (http://thamnophis.tribe.net/photos/dd2d23b9-7554-47d8-97b1-f871eb503e7c)

Title: Melanistic Garter Snake
Post by: oniedz on May 01, 2007, 07:30:30 PM

My son and I also saw this snake at Leslie Spit but I could not figure out what kind it was.  Thanks for the ID.