Species:
Thamnophis hammondii
Two-striped Gartersnake
August 28, 1999
San Ysidro Canyon, Santa Barbara County, California

We watched this very aquatic snake go about its business for ten or fifteen minutes. It would warm up on an exposed rock (as shown), then slip into the water to poke around the rocks at the bottom of the stream, presumably looking for tasty underwater morsels, then slide back up on another exposed rock for more thermoregulation.


