Wow, things are slower than usual! Rain is great of course, but the snakes are more or less stuck at the dens until these sub-50 overnight temperatures ease up. Regardless, some have tried to get out and star their springtime activity, and along with that comes conflict with human development. Here are just some of the calls we’ve taken recently, all of which were relocated to suitable microhabitat within their estimated homerange.

And here we go! With overnight temperatures stabilizing in the 50s and daytime in the low 70s, that’s the signal for rattlesnakes to start getting active. Rattlesnakes will start waking up for the year and appearing on social media pages near you, and we start getting busy!