identify please.

[HetForHuman]

well last night i got home froma bit of drinking and my neighbors were having a party. I went over there and one of the kids opened this lid on a bucket that had been sitting outside for 2 days and there was this snake in it. it had no water no nothing and they said they were going to put it in an aquarium.
i also asked where they got it and they said their friend has the mother and it give birth to a whole bunch of babies.
so i took the snake from them because they would have just killed it anyway.
they said it is a bullsnake, but i did a search and the pics i come up with dont look like it. to me it looks more like a garter snake, but i am still unsure.
here is some pics.

http://www.ssnakess.com/photopost/data/500/1834101_0200-med.JPG
http://www.ssnakess.com/photopost/data/500/1834101_0199-med.JPG

[ANACONDASAURUS]

It looks like an eastern garter snake.

[Removed_2815]

A nice example of a Wandering Garter Snake Thamnophis elegans vagrans.
Cheers,
RMB

[Colonel SB]

Very beautiful I must admite I know noth9ing about Thamnophis though :p

[Wuntu Menny]

A rare Alberta spitting cobra if ever I saw one!

Actually, it looks exactly like the garters I used to catch as a kid. I've gone on a few little retro herping hikes in Calgary over the years and the local populations of these guys appears to be dwindling to near extirpation.

WM

[tai_pan1]

Definitely a garter. If the stripes on the side are restricted to scales in row 2 and 3 it is an eastern. If not, I would go with wandering as well.

Mike