Luckily most of my work area doesnt have timber rattlers, although the lower section of my area does as well as cottonmouths. I hate this time of year when we get a call about a failed pipe or problem with a bridge. The rains we've been having has caused a bunch of such issues and today as I stepped off the asphalt to walk down a slope a damn banded snake of some sort took off a couple feet in front of me. I'm thinking it was a banded water snake as most copperhead I have seen were not this fast and will try to lay low and hide. That was the last stop for the day for me...made the 4th snake I saw. They are out and about now.
