{"id":2487,"date":"2026-01-06T07:29:51","date_gmt":"2026-01-06T14:29:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/rattlesnakesolutions.com\/fieldherper\/?p=2487"},"modified":"2026-01-06T07:29:53","modified_gmt":"2026-01-06T14:29:53","slug":"southwestern-speckled-rattlesnake-in-ambush-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rattlesnakesolutions.com\/fieldherper\/snakes\/southwestern-speckled-rattlesnake-in-ambush-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Southwestern Speckled Rattlesnake in Ambush"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/rattlesnakesolutions.com\/fieldherper\/tag\/pyrrhus\/\" data-type=\"post_tag\" data-id=\"433\">Speckled Rattlesnakes<\/a> are often seen by hikers in <a href=\"https:\/\/rattlesnakesolutions.com\/fieldherper\/tag\/phoenix\/\" data-type=\"post_tag\" data-id=\"14\">Phoenix<\/a>, who can be surprised that wildlife can be found even on hiking trails in the middle of the city. If you&#8217;ve ever hiked <a href=\"https:\/\/rattlesnakesolutions.com\/fieldherper\/tag\/camelback\/\" data-type=\"post_tag\" data-id=\"466\">Camelback<\/a>, you&#8217;ve likely walked right past at least one of these beautiful pink animals. They&#8217;re very cryptic though, so not many people will ever know.<\/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_O4A8810-1200x850.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-2488\" srcset=\"https:\/\/rattlesnakesolutions.com\/fieldherper\/wp-content\/uploads\/Crotalus-pyrrhus_O4A8810-1200x850.jpg 1200w, https:\/\/rattlesnakesolutions.com\/fieldherper\/wp-content\/uploads\/Crotalus-pyrrhus_O4A8810-752x533.jpg 752w, https:\/\/rattlesnakesolutions.com\/fieldherper\/wp-content\/uploads\/Crotalus-pyrrhus_O4A8810-768x544.jpg 768w, https:\/\/rattlesnakesolutions.com\/fieldherper\/wp-content\/uploads\/Crotalus-pyrrhus_O4A8810-1536x1089.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/rattlesnakesolutions.com\/fieldherper\/wp-content\/uploads\/Crotalus-pyrrhus_O4A8810-2048x1451.jpg 2048w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1200px) 100vw, 1200px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Speckled Rattlesnakes are often seen by hikers in Phoenix, who can be surprised that wildlife can be found even on hiking trails in the middle of the city. If you&#8217;ve ever hiked Camelback, you&#8217;ve likely walked right past at least one of these beautiful pink animals. They&#8217;re very cryptic though, so not many people will [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2488,"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":[14,466],"class_list":["post-2487","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-rattlesnakes","category-pyrrhus","category-snakes","category-viperidae","tag-phoenix","tag-camelback"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/rattlesnakesolutions.com\/fieldherper\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2487","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=2487"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/rattlesnakesolutions.com\/fieldherper\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2487\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2490,"href":"https:\/\/rattlesnakesolutions.com\/fieldherper\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2487\/revisions\/2490"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rattlesnakesolutions.com\/fieldherper\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2488"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/rattlesnakesolutions.com\/fieldherper\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2487"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rattlesnakesolutions.com\/fieldherper\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2487"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rattlesnakesolutions.com\/fieldherper\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2487"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}