{"id":9455,"date":"2026-09-27T08:11:06","date_gmt":"2026-09-27T15:11:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/rattlesnakesolutions.com\/snakeremoval\/?p=9455"},"modified":"2026-09-19T08:17:56","modified_gmt":"2026-09-19T15:17:56","slug":"a-tiny-western-diamondback-in-the-courtyard","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rattlesnakesolutions.com\/snakeremoval\/snake-removal\/a-tiny-western-diamondback-in-the-courtyard\/","title":{"rendered":"A Tiny Western Diamondback in the Courtyard"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>The homeowner spotted this neonate <a href=\"https:\/\/rattlesnakesolutions.com\/snakeremoval\/tag\/western-diamondback-rattlesnake\/\" data-type=\"post_tag\" data-id=\"138\">Western Diamondback Rattlesnake<\/a> tucked into a shaded corner of her front courtyard.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The home has a large wash running behind it, and several of the front gates had small access points that a snake this size could easily fit through. For a newborn rattlesnake wandering around trying to figure out life, that\u2019s likely all it took to end up in the courtyard.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Jeff captured the little snake and relocated it just outside the neighborhood, releasing it into a rodent burrow tucked against a stack of boulders where it had plenty of cover.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-gallery has-nested-images columns-1 is-cropped wp-block-gallery-1 is-layout-flex wp-block-gallery-is-layout-flex\">\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"820\" data-id=\"9456\" src=\"https:\/\/rattlesnakesolutions.com\/snakeremoval\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/IMG_6740-1024x820.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-9456\" srcset=\"https:\/\/rattlesnakesolutions.com\/snakeremoval\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/IMG_6740-1024x820.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/rattlesnakesolutions.com\/snakeremoval\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/IMG_6740-666x533.jpg 666w, https:\/\/rattlesnakesolutions.com\/snakeremoval\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/IMG_6740-768x615.jpg 768w, https:\/\/rattlesnakesolutions.com\/snakeremoval\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/IMG_6740.jpg 1440w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"819\" data-id=\"9457\" src=\"https:\/\/rattlesnakesolutions.com\/snakeremoval\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/IMG_6726-1024x819.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-9457\" srcset=\"https:\/\/rattlesnakesolutions.com\/snakeremoval\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/IMG_6726-1024x819.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/rattlesnakesolutions.com\/snakeremoval\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/IMG_6726-666x533.jpg 666w, https:\/\/rattlesnakesolutions.com\/snakeremoval\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/IMG_6726-768x614.jpg 768w, https:\/\/rattlesnakesolutions.com\/snakeremoval\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/IMG_6726.jpg 1440w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/figure>\n<\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The homeowner spotted this neonate Western Diamondback Rattlesnake tucked into a shaded corner of her front courtyard. The home has a large wash running behind it, and several of the front gates had small access points that a snake this size could easily fit through. For a newborn rattlesnake wandering around trying to figure out [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":9456,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[10,5],"tags":[116,8,138],"class_list":["post-9455","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-arizona-snakes","category-snake-removal","tag-arizona-snake-removal","tag-snake-removal","tag-western-diamondback-rattlesnake"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/rattlesnakesolutions.com\/snakeremoval\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9455","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/rattlesnakesolutions.com\/snakeremoval\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/rattlesnakesolutions.com\/snakeremoval\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rattlesnakesolutions.com\/snakeremoval\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rattlesnakesolutions.com\/snakeremoval\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9455"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/rattlesnakesolutions.com\/snakeremoval\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9455\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9458,"href":"https:\/\/rattlesnakesolutions.com\/snakeremoval\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9455\/revisions\/9458"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rattlesnakesolutions.com\/snakeremoval\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/9456"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/rattlesnakesolutions.com\/snakeremoval\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9455"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rattlesnakesolutions.com\/snakeremoval\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9455"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rattlesnakesolutions.com\/snakeremoval\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9455"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}