Perfectly-fitting steel and concrete will keep rattlesnakes of any size from getting through this gate. There’s still some time before rattlesnakes are part of daily desert life, before our phones go crazy.
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A standard Cave Creek door greeter, avoiding the sun of the day in the well-shaded entryway. This little Western Diamondback Rattlesnake even found some decorations to pretty it up a bit. It was helped to a less toe-friendly situation within its home range.
LOL I put this photo in the “before” folder before seeing the comment from Jill that this was AFTER. It’s a great example of how the black rattlesnake fencing disappears from a little distance.
It’s still winter and we have some availability for snake fence installations before the spring warmup makes our phones go nuts.
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A pair of small Western Diamondback Rattlesnakes were discovered hibernating at an irrigation box. Moisture is one of the primary factors that may get a rattlesnake to come out of its winter den for a short time, but don’t make the mistake many do of saying things like “they are out”, when it’s really more like getting up in the middle of the night to get a drink and going back to bed. These two were carefully relocated to suitable hibernation microhabitat.
This Western Diamondback Rattlesnake was found at a hospital in Tucson, relatively far from the nearest suitable habitat. Some of these situations are tricky, where it’s clear that a snake has managed to survive in a heavily developed area, despite traffic and people, long after the bulldozers are gone.
Well, this is an interesting one. A call to an apartment complex near South Mountain sent Bryce looking for two snakes said to be taking cover under a ledge of the building. When he showed up and started searching the area, he found the snakes in question: a Western Diamondback Rattlesnake and TEN newborns, as well as a Speckled Rattlesnake a few feet away. Just as he was releasing them, he got another call from the property for another location, where another Speckled Rattlesnake was hanging out. I think we may need to move into this place.
Another near-death of a harmless snake due to a gluetrap. This one lucked out by being spotted in time for Marissa to come rescue it.
Most often, this is not an expected result for homeowners. It can be a shock, and very often once something like this happens, the remaining traps go into the trash.
A worker noticed this Western Diamondback Rattlesnake coiled up in a hole next to a box he needed to access. Marissa helped the snake get to a better spot.
Marissa went to Gilbert to get a Mojave Rattlesnake that was hanging out in the backyard. While she was hiking it out to relocate it, she found a second, much more colorful Mojave sitting out in the open. Taking this as an indication of ideal habitat for these snakes, the pretty one now has a new roommate.
This Arizona Black Rattlesnake found a nice, shaded spot to hang out on a hot August day. It was relocated to a better spot within its estimated home range in the Prescott National Forest.
