re: 2024 Snake Extravaganza (Friday Day 5 update)

Pretty close. Broadbanded as Alx said, and ribbon not garter. Though the ribbon is doing his best garter impression. I initially thought it was a garter the way it flattened itself out. The racer is the thickest I’ve seen - and it’s possibly an intergrade black racer/black-masked racer. It was caught on the land bridge that connects the north & south shore, so both blacks & black masks co-exist and interbreed there. This one was missing a couple characteristics that intergrades have, but the color was different than any racer I’ve seen. The color was somewhere between a black & black masked, but the photo doesn’t do it justice.

ETA: The distinguishing marks separating ribbon and garter are the little white/yellowish patch right in front the eye on the ribbon, and vertical dark lines on the lips of the garter. Usually at a quick glance the thickness separates them. Once this ribbon un-flattened himself, he was way thinner than he looks.