Happy World Snake Day
Celebrating Snakes Today Eastern Garter Snake ( Thamnophis sirtalis sirtalis) Prescott-Russell Recreational Trail, Ontario, Canada. The theme for World Snake Day 2024 emphasises the critical role snakes play in the environment and how they can be good neighbours by controlling pest populations and contributing to biodiversity. I love to photograph snakes. Most common is the Eastern Garter Snake that I come across most often. It is most favourable to photograph snakes in the spring and fall this is when they are most docile and very slow in their movements. Otherwise they move with great speeds to get away from you in the summer months. It is kind of scary that most species of snake have a conservation status connected to them and it is becoming increasingly harder to come across these wonderful creatures in the wild. The rarest being the Massasauga Rattlesnake the only rattlesnake here in Ontario, I have only come across once in my travels to the Bruce Peninsul...