{"id":2553,"date":"2026-02-09T17:00:10","date_gmt":"2026-02-10T00:00:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/rattlesnakesolutions.com\/fieldherper\/?p=2553"},"modified":"2026-02-09T17:00:12","modified_gmt":"2026-02-10T00:00:12","slug":"western-diamondback-out-in-the-rain","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rattlesnakesolutions.com\/fieldherper\/snakes\/western-diamondback-out-in-the-rain\/","title":{"rendered":"Western Diamondback Out in the Rain"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>One of many <a href=\"https:\/\/rattlesnakesolutions.com\/fieldherper\/category\/snakes\/viperidae\/rattlesnakes\/atrox\/\" data-type=\"category\" data-id=\"146\">Western Diamondback Rattlesnake<\/a> out in the rain on a cold December night. Being warm is great and all, but <a href=\"https:\/\/rattlesnakesolutions.com\/fieldherper\/tag\/rain\/\" data-type=\"post_tag\" data-id=\"41\">water<\/a> drives activity in the desert.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>You may see us issue a statement from time to time to give a heads up before going to firewood piles, etc. These events are largely predictable, where rattlesnakes behave in ways that are surprising to most people, and we may assume it&#8217;s not possible to see a rattlesnake. When you see something like that from us, know that it&#8217;s from a lot of data and getting out of bed in the middle of the night in December to stand around in the rain waiting to see if snakes come out \ud83d\ude42<\/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-atrox-_3386-Edit-1200x850.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-2554\" srcset=\"https:\/\/rattlesnakesolutions.com\/fieldherper\/wp-content\/uploads\/Crotalus-atrox-_3386-Edit-1200x850.jpg 1200w, https:\/\/rattlesnakesolutions.com\/fieldherper\/wp-content\/uploads\/Crotalus-atrox-_3386-Edit-752x533.jpg 752w, https:\/\/rattlesnakesolutions.com\/fieldherper\/wp-content\/uploads\/Crotalus-atrox-_3386-Edit-768x544.jpg 768w, https:\/\/rattlesnakesolutions.com\/fieldherper\/wp-content\/uploads\/Crotalus-atrox-_3386-Edit-1536x1089.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/rattlesnakesolutions.com\/fieldherper\/wp-content\/uploads\/Crotalus-atrox-_3386-Edit-2048x1451.jpg 2048w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1200px) 100vw, 1200px\" \/><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>One of many Western Diamondback Rattlesnake out in the rain on a cold December night. Being warm is great and all, but water drives activity in the desert. You may see us issue a statement from time to time to give a heads up before going to firewood piles, etc. These events are largely predictable, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2554,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[146,136,135,139],"tags":[41,80],"class_list":["post-2553","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-atrox","category-rattlesnakes","category-snakes","category-viperidae","tag-rain","tag-winter"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/rattlesnakesolutions.com\/fieldherper\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2553","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=2553"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/rattlesnakesolutions.com\/fieldherper\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2553\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2555,"href":"https:\/\/rattlesnakesolutions.com\/fieldherper\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2553\/revisions\/2555"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rattlesnakesolutions.com\/fieldherper\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2554"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/rattlesnakesolutions.com\/fieldherper\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2553"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rattlesnakesolutions.com\/fieldherper\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2553"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rattlesnakesolutions.com\/fieldherper\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2553"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}