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The Common Garter Snake

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There’s at least four common garter snakes basking in this shrub. THOR GINSBERG

There’s at least four common garter snakes basking in this shrub. THOR GINSBERG

author on Oct 9, 2018
Dai Dayton, president of the Friends of the Long Pond Greenbelt, came across a small bundle of snakes sunning themselves in a shrub last week, and managed to get a... more

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