{"id":2363,"date":"2025-11-04T08:44:51","date_gmt":"2025-11-04T15:44:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/rattlesnakesolutions.com\/fieldherper\/?p=2363"},"modified":"2025-11-04T08:44:54","modified_gmt":"2025-11-04T15:44:54","slug":"speckled-rattlesnake-from-the-estrellas","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rattlesnakesolutions.com\/fieldherper\/snakes\/speckled-rattlesnake-from-the-estrellas\/","title":{"rendered":"Speckled Rattlesnake from the Estrellas"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Despite being incredibly easy to observe in surrounding mountain ranges, the <a href=\"https:\/\/rattlesnakesolutions.com\/fieldherper\/category\/snakes\/viperidae\/rattlesnakes\/pyrrhus\/\" data-type=\"category\" data-id=\"145\">Southwestern Speckled Rattlesnakes<\/a> in the <a href=\"https:\/\/rattlesnakesolutions.com\/fieldherper\/tag\/estrella\/\" data-type=\"post_tag\" data-id=\"615\">Sierra Estrella<\/a> just southwest of <a href=\"https:\/\/rattlesnakesolutions.com\/fieldherper\/tag\/phoenix\/\" data-type=\"post_tag\" data-id=\"14\">Phoenix<\/a> are harder to spot. They&#8217;re likely just as common, but the steep terrain and majority of prime geology for the species being inaccessible reservation land make it a challenge to see one. Kris Haas spotted this pretty one way up mountain.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1200\" height=\"850\" src=\"https:\/\/rattlesnakesolutions.com\/fieldherper\/wp-content\/uploads\/Crotalus-pyrrhus-_9812-Edit-1200x850.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-2364\" srcset=\"https:\/\/rattlesnakesolutions.com\/fieldherper\/wp-content\/uploads\/Crotalus-pyrrhus-_9812-Edit-1200x850.jpg 1200w, https:\/\/rattlesnakesolutions.com\/fieldherper\/wp-content\/uploads\/Crotalus-pyrrhus-_9812-Edit-752x533.jpg 752w, https:\/\/rattlesnakesolutions.com\/fieldherper\/wp-content\/uploads\/Crotalus-pyrrhus-_9812-Edit-768x544.jpg 768w, https:\/\/rattlesnakesolutions.com\/fieldherper\/wp-content\/uploads\/Crotalus-pyrrhus-_9812-Edit-1536x1089.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/rattlesnakesolutions.com\/fieldherper\/wp-content\/uploads\/Crotalus-pyrrhus-_9812-Edit-2048x1451.jpg 2048w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1200px) 100vw, 1200px\" \/><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Despite being incredibly easy to observe in surrounding mountain ranges, the Southwestern Speckled Rattlesnakes in the Sierra Estrella just southwest of Phoenix are harder to spot. They&#8217;re likely just as common, but the steep terrain and majority of prime geology for the species being inaccessible reservation land make it a challenge to see one. Kris [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2364,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[136,145,135,139],"tags":[14,38,200,473,615],"class_list":["post-2363","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-rattlesnakes","category-pyrrhus","category-snakes","category-viperidae","tag-phoenix","tag-arizona","tag-maricopa-county","tag-speckled","tag-estrella"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/rattlesnakesolutions.com\/fieldherper\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2363","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/rattlesnakesolutions.com\/fieldherper\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/rattlesnakesolutions.com\/fieldherper\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rattlesnakesolutions.com\/fieldherper\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rattlesnakesolutions.com\/fieldherper\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2363"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/rattlesnakesolutions.com\/fieldherper\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2363\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2365,"href":"https:\/\/rattlesnakesolutions.com\/fieldherper\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2363\/revisions\/2365"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rattlesnakesolutions.com\/fieldherper\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2364"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/rattlesnakesolutions.com\/fieldherper\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2363"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rattlesnakesolutions.com\/fieldherper\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2363"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rattlesnakesolutions.com\/fieldherper\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2363"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}