This could have made for a very bad day

[Onerider]

 

[Ron Evers]

Oh look mom, a slinky.

 

[EIngerson]

Dude knows how to blend in, thats for sure. Nice capture.

 

[snowbear]

Timber rattler?

 

[Onerider]

Crotalus horridus: Timber Rattlesnake

 

[SCraig]

I consider myself very lucky in that I've lived around here all my life, and have spent a good part of it stomping around the woods, but have yet to see a rattlesnake. It wouldn't have to bite me, I'd just roll over and die for it.

 

[Onerider]

I went back to get a longer lens but it was gone when I got back. I sure wasn't going to thrash the brush trying to find it.

 

[frommrstomommy]

I consider myself very lucky in that I've lived around here all my life, and have spent a good part of it stomping around the woods, but have yet to see a rattlesnake. It wouldn't have to bite me, I'd just roll over and die for it.

you and me both lol

 

[David8]

And they say Australia has all of the deadly animals...

 

[cgipson1]

Pretty rattler... and that is not a good one to mess with. Most of the ones we have out west don't bother me too much ( I move them off of hiking trails all the time), but Horridus has a really nasty venom!

 

[MartinCrabtree]

Leave them alone and they'll do the same. Awesome critters.

 

[cgipson1]

Leave them alone and they'll do the same. Awesome critters.

Yea.. one reason I always move them, is some "macho hero" will try to kill them if I don't. They really keep the rodents down!

 

[Ron Evers]

Leave them alone and they'll do the same. Awesome critters.

Yea.. one reason I always move them, is some "macho hero" will try to kill them if I don't. They really keep the rodents down!

Take a forked stick to the one with the forked tongue - no need to kill them. Now skeeters & blackflies are another story.

 

[Radical]

I'd shoot out of there like rocket.

 

[ronlane]

Yes, this could have been a very bad day.