We got called out to a home in Cave Creek where the homeowner was knocking out yard work during an unseasonably warm afternoon, and since it was late December he didn’t expect to find a beautiful Western Diamondback tucked under a trash can, clearly taking advantage of the weather too. The house sits on a golf course with a view fence and backs up to a desert preserve, so this is exactly the kind of edge habitat where these encounters happen when conditions line up. Even though this one was pretty well behaved, there was no room for any extra holiday guests, so we moved it into the nearby preserve where it’s now living rent and worry free in a massive packrat nest.
