{"id":2909,"date":"2026-07-13T06:01:57","date_gmt":"2026-07-13T13:01:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/rattlesnakesolutions.com\/fieldherper\/?p=2909"},"modified":"2026-07-13T06:01:59","modified_gmt":"2026-07-13T13:01:59","slug":"banded-rock-rattlesnake-up-close","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rattlesnakesolutions.com\/fieldherper\/snakes\/banded-rock-rattlesnake-up-close\/","title":{"rendered":"Banded Rock Rattlesnake Up Close"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Up close with a <a href=\"https:\/\/rattlesnakesolutions.com\/fieldherper\/category\/snakes\/viperidae\/rattlesnakes\/lepidus\/klauberi\/\" data-type=\"category\" data-id=\"162\">Banded Rock Rattlesnake <\/a>from the <a href=\"https:\/\/rattlesnakesolutions.com\/fieldherper\/tag\/sky-islands\/\" data-type=\"post_tag\" data-id=\"267\">sky islands<\/a> of southeastern Arizona. These small, mountain-dwelling rattlesnakes are quick to flee when found. A typical encounter for a hiker is a short buzz and a glimpse of the last half of its body sliding under a rock. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The tiny black flecks you see in the scales aren&#8217;t really visible in real life, or even visible at all. They show up on camera sensors, though, for some reason. Similarly, it&#8217;s often difficult to capture the colors of the species on camera &#8230; a snake with a bright green stripe down its back may appear to be without it on camera. <\/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-lepidus-klauberi-_1684-Edit-1200x850.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-2910\" srcset=\"https:\/\/rattlesnakesolutions.com\/fieldherper\/wp-content\/uploads\/Crotalus-lepidus-klauberi-_1684-Edit-1200x850.jpg 1200w, https:\/\/rattlesnakesolutions.com\/fieldherper\/wp-content\/uploads\/Crotalus-lepidus-klauberi-_1684-Edit-752x533.jpg 752w, https:\/\/rattlesnakesolutions.com\/fieldherper\/wp-content\/uploads\/Crotalus-lepidus-klauberi-_1684-Edit-768x544.jpg 768w, https:\/\/rattlesnakesolutions.com\/fieldherper\/wp-content\/uploads\/Crotalus-lepidus-klauberi-_1684-Edit-1536x1089.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/rattlesnakesolutions.com\/fieldherper\/wp-content\/uploads\/Crotalus-lepidus-klauberi-_1684-Edit-2048x1451.jpg 2048w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1200px) 100vw, 1200px\" \/><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Up close with a Banded Rock Rattlesnake from the sky islands of southeastern Arizona. These small, mountain-dwelling rattlesnakes are quick to flee when found. A typical encounter for a hiker is a short buzz and a glimpse of the last half of its body sliding under a rock. The tiny black flecks you see in [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2910,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[136,162,161,135,139],"tags":[267,571],"class_list":["post-2909","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-rattlesnakes","category-klauberi","category-lepidus","category-snakes","category-viperidae","tag-sky-islands","tag-photography"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/rattlesnakesolutions.com\/fieldherper\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2909","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=2909"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/rattlesnakesolutions.com\/fieldherper\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2909\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2911,"href":"https:\/\/rattlesnakesolutions.com\/fieldherper\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2909\/revisions\/2911"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rattlesnakesolutions.com\/fieldherper\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2910"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/rattlesnakesolutions.com\/fieldherper\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2909"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rattlesnakesolutions.com\/fieldherper\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2909"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rattlesnakesolutions.com\/fieldherper\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2909"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}