{"id":2112,"date":"2025-06-25T05:53:23","date_gmt":"2025-06-25T12:53:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/rattlesnakesolutions.com\/fieldherper\/?p=2112"},"modified":"2025-06-25T05:53:25","modified_gmt":"2025-06-25T12:53:25","slug":"baby-black-necked-gartersnake-hunting","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rattlesnakesolutions.com\/fieldherper\/snakes\/baby-black-necked-gartersnake-hunting\/","title":{"rendered":"Baby Black-necked Gartersnake Hunting"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>If you walk a stream in much of Arizona right now, there&#8217;s a good chance you&#8217;ll run into one of these. It&#8217;s a Black-necked Gartersnake, getting breath and a break between dives to eat tadpoles. In any of the isolated pools along this drainage, there may be one or two, filling up on these seasonal globs of protein while they can. This particular snake is a very small baby, likely not much different in age than the tadpoles it&#8217;s hunting.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1200\" height=\"850\" src=\"https:\/\/rattlesnakesolutions.com\/fieldherper\/wp-content\/uploads\/Thamnophis-cyrtopsis_2190-Enhanced-Edit-1200x850.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-2113\" srcset=\"https:\/\/rattlesnakesolutions.com\/fieldherper\/wp-content\/uploads\/Thamnophis-cyrtopsis_2190-Enhanced-Edit-1200x850.jpg 1200w, https:\/\/rattlesnakesolutions.com\/fieldherper\/wp-content\/uploads\/Thamnophis-cyrtopsis_2190-Enhanced-Edit-752x533.jpg 752w, https:\/\/rattlesnakesolutions.com\/fieldherper\/wp-content\/uploads\/Thamnophis-cyrtopsis_2190-Enhanced-Edit-768x544.jpg 768w, https:\/\/rattlesnakesolutions.com\/fieldherper\/wp-content\/uploads\/Thamnophis-cyrtopsis_2190-Enhanced-Edit-1536x1089.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/rattlesnakesolutions.com\/fieldherper\/wp-content\/uploads\/Thamnophis-cyrtopsis_2190-Enhanced-Edit-2048x1451.jpg 2048w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1200px) 100vw, 1200px\" \/><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>If you walk a stream in much of Arizona right now, there&#8217;s a good chance you&#8217;ll run into one of these. It&#8217;s a Black-necked Gartersnake, getting breath and a break between dives to eat tadpoles. In any of the isolated pools along this drainage, there may be one or two, filling up on these seasonal [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2113,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[141,511,135,510],"tags":[513,193,512],"class_list":["post-2112","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-colubridae","category-cyrtopsis","category-snakes","category-thamnophis","tag-stream","tag-hunting","tag-tadpoles"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/rattlesnakesolutions.com\/fieldherper\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2112","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/rattlesnakesolutions.com\/fieldherper\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/rattlesnakesolutions.com\/fieldherper\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rattlesnakesolutions.com\/fieldherper\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rattlesnakesolutions.com\/fieldherper\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2112"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/rattlesnakesolutions.com\/fieldherper\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2112\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2114,"href":"https:\/\/rattlesnakesolutions.com\/fieldherper\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2112\/revisions\/2114"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rattlesnakesolutions.com\/fieldherper\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2113"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/rattlesnakesolutions.com\/fieldherper\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2112"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rattlesnakesolutions.com\/fieldherper\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2112"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rattlesnakesolutions.com\/fieldherper\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2112"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}