{"id":2658,"date":"2026-03-14T04:57:22","date_gmt":"2026-03-14T11:57:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/rattlesnakesolutions.com\/fieldherper\/?p=2658"},"modified":"2026-03-16T04:58:47","modified_gmt":"2026-03-16T11:58:47","slug":"longnosed-snake-in-the-daytime","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rattlesnakesolutions.com\/fieldherper\/snakes\/longnosed-snake-in-the-daytime\/","title":{"rendered":"Longnosed Snake in the Daytime"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>A <a href=\"https:\/\/rattlesnakesolutions.com\/fieldherper\/category\/snakes\/colubridae\/rhinocheilus\/lecontei\/\" data-type=\"category\" data-id=\"724\">Longnosed Snake<\/a> cruising around in the low light at the end of the day. These snakes are most often <a href=\"https:\/\/rattlesnakesolutions.com\/fieldherper\/tag\/nocturnal\/\" data-type=\"post_tag\" data-id=\"324\">nocturnal<\/a>, but may be found in the <a href=\"https:\/\/rattlesnakesolutions.com\/fieldherper\/tag\/crepuscular\/\" data-type=\"post_tag\" data-id=\"727\">early morning or late afternoon<\/a>, especially in the Spring. Against the chaotic, rocky backdrop of desert pavement between sandy plains, its shape breaks up, and spotting it can be difficult.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>These snakes are commonly found in backyards, even a decent distance into the city, where they are usually misidentified as kingsnakes.<\/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\/Rhinocheilus-lecontei-20130409_6087-1200x850.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-2659\" srcset=\"https:\/\/rattlesnakesolutions.com\/fieldherper\/wp-content\/uploads\/Rhinocheilus-lecontei-20130409_6087-1200x850.jpg 1200w, https:\/\/rattlesnakesolutions.com\/fieldherper\/wp-content\/uploads\/Rhinocheilus-lecontei-20130409_6087-752x533.jpg 752w, https:\/\/rattlesnakesolutions.com\/fieldherper\/wp-content\/uploads\/Rhinocheilus-lecontei-20130409_6087-768x544.jpg 768w, https:\/\/rattlesnakesolutions.com\/fieldherper\/wp-content\/uploads\/Rhinocheilus-lecontei-20130409_6087-1536x1089.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/rattlesnakesolutions.com\/fieldherper\/wp-content\/uploads\/Rhinocheilus-lecontei-20130409_6087-2048x1451.jpg 2048w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1200px) 100vw, 1200px\" \/><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A Longnosed Snake cruising around in the low light at the end of the day. These snakes are most often nocturnal, but may be found in the early morning or late afternoon, especially in the Spring. Against the chaotic, rocky backdrop of desert pavement between sandy plains, its shape breaks up, and spotting it can [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2659,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[141,724,168,135],"tags":[324,727,728],"class_list":["post-2658","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-colubridae","category-lecontei","category-rhinocheilus","category-snakes","tag-nocturnal","tag-crepuscular","tag-desert-pavement"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/rattlesnakesolutions.com\/fieldherper\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2658","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=2658"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/rattlesnakesolutions.com\/fieldherper\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2658\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2660,"href":"https:\/\/rattlesnakesolutions.com\/fieldherper\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2658\/revisions\/2660"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rattlesnakesolutions.com\/fieldherper\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2659"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/rattlesnakesolutions.com\/fieldherper\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2658"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rattlesnakesolutions.com\/fieldherper\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2658"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rattlesnakesolutions.com\/fieldherper\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2658"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}