Garter Snake

Curious and hiding between scrap wood planks in a meadow. I was making a board walk nature trail with 4x4s and found out that almost half a dozen snakes were under it the next day, so I had to raise the 4x4 planks up on short end supports and I placed flat sheets of old wood under them. The baby snakes seem to hunt the wild cockroach species attracted and they like the shade under the wood sheets (and I can walk over them and not disturb their rest!