On Monday, May 9th, I took a leisurely drive to visit the Narcisse snake dens/pits. The dens are located about 130 Kms north of Winnipeg in the Manitoba Interlake region. As you will see in the video, I was in luck...there was a lot of "action" in those pits.
Here you can see more snakes at a glance than anywhere else in the world. For two brief periods each year tens of thousands of red-sided garter snakes congregate at the surface of their winter dens. Beginning with the first few warm days of spring, garter snakes emerge from these dens and gather in large numbers to perform a fascinating mating ritual. Following a two to three week frenzy of mating activity, snakes disperse to nearby marshes for the summer. By early fall they return to their dens, wintering in fissures and crevasses of the limestone bedrock below the frozen ground.

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