{"id":2630,"date":"2026-03-05T07:25:30","date_gmt":"2026-03-05T14:25:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/rattlesnakesolutions.com\/fieldherper\/?p=2630"},"modified":"2026-03-05T07:25:32","modified_gmt":"2026-03-05T14:25:32","slug":"western-diamondback-rattlesnake-in-ambush-at-night","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rattlesnakesolutions.com\/fieldherper\/snakes\/western-diamondback-rattlesnake-in-ambush-at-night\/","title":{"rendered":"Western Diamondback Rattlesnake in Ambush at Night"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>A Western Diamondback Rattlesnake I found in ambush on a late-night hike in a desert canyon. When it&#8217;s hot, these snakes are mostly nocturnal, only seeing daylight shortly after sunup for much of the summer.<\/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-_0803-Edit-1200x850.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-2631\" srcset=\"https:\/\/rattlesnakesolutions.com\/fieldherper\/wp-content\/uploads\/Crotalus-atrox-_0803-Edit-1200x850.jpg 1200w, https:\/\/rattlesnakesolutions.com\/fieldherper\/wp-content\/uploads\/Crotalus-atrox-_0803-Edit-752x533.jpg 752w, https:\/\/rattlesnakesolutions.com\/fieldherper\/wp-content\/uploads\/Crotalus-atrox-_0803-Edit-768x544.jpg 768w, https:\/\/rattlesnakesolutions.com\/fieldherper\/wp-content\/uploads\/Crotalus-atrox-_0803-Edit-1536x1089.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/rattlesnakesolutions.com\/fieldherper\/wp-content\/uploads\/Crotalus-atrox-_0803-Edit-2048x1451.jpg 2048w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1200px) 100vw, 1200px\" \/><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A Western Diamondback Rattlesnake I found in ambush on a late-night hike in a desert canyon. When it&#8217;s hot, these snakes are mostly nocturnal, only seeing daylight shortly after sunup for much of the summer.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2631,"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":[38,192],"class_list":["post-2630","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-atrox","category-rattlesnakes","category-snakes","category-viperidae","tag-arizona","tag-ambush"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/rattlesnakesolutions.com\/fieldherper\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2630","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=2630"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/rattlesnakesolutions.com\/fieldherper\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2630\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2632,"href":"https:\/\/rattlesnakesolutions.com\/fieldherper\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2630\/revisions\/2632"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rattlesnakesolutions.com\/fieldherper\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2631"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/rattlesnakesolutions.com\/fieldherper\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2630"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rattlesnakesolutions.com\/fieldherper\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2630"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rattlesnakesolutions.com\/fieldherper\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2630"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}