I haven’t seen a rattlesnake all season. Then yesterday, down by our spring, I saw three. I ran back to the yurt…for the camera. I’ve been wanting to get some good rattler photos. I’ll need to keep working on it. This photo doesn’t do justice to the snake’s beauty.
Even when I closed in to snap the picture, the snake never coiled up. It just rattled, tried to hide behind grass stalks and slowly disappeared into denser brush. Every snake we’ve met out here has been like that (though some do coil): more interested in escape than confrontation.
- Northern Pacific Rattlesnake (Crotalus oreganus)
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