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First rattlesnake of the season: I count 11 segments on the rattle, so maybe 4-5 YO. (I've seen this same snake in the same spot for about 4 years no, go figure) must mean it's time to move the girls out into the flight chamber: and Lily out into the mew:
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You boys can have the snakes.
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That'd make a fine hatband UT.
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To each his own but I would have seen that snake once.
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First rattlesnake of the season:
I count 11 segments on the rattle, so maybe 4-5 YO. (I've seen this same snake in the same spot for about 4 years no, go figure)
How could you miss it every time?
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Campfire 'Bwana
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The snake would have been in the skillet the first time I saw it
A Doe walks out of the woods today and says, that is the last time I'm going to do that for Two Bucks.
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To each his own but I would have seen that snake once.
RS It would have been viewed alive by me only once, then viewed many times with fondness and admiration as a new hatband!
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Prairie Rattler? Western Diamondback?
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First rattlesnake of the season:
I count 11 segments on the rattle, so maybe 4-5 YO. (I've seen this same snake in the same spot for about 4 years no, go figure)
How could you miss it every time? I know it's a minority opinion, but I kinda like having them around as long as they're not in the yard. The hillside behind our house is ideal habitat and there are a half-dozen spots where one can reliably see the same snake(s) year after year. Besides, they're really good at rodent control !
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Prairie Rattler? Western Diamondback? this is a Western or Great Basin rattler. They're much less potent that the Western Diamondback in terms of venom. The only patient I ever had die from a bite was a direct arterial (tongue) injection
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So is a blacksnake!
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