{"id":9572,"date":"2026-10-20T09:52:32","date_gmt":"2026-10-20T16:52:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/rattlesnakesolutions.com\/snakeremoval\/?p=9572"},"modified":"2026-10-07T09:53:10","modified_gmt":"2026-10-07T16:53:10","slug":"a-baby-western-diamondback-in-scottsdale","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rattlesnakesolutions.com\/snakeremoval\/snake-removal\/a-baby-western-diamondback-in-scottsdale\/","title":{"rendered":"A Baby Western Diamondback in Scottsdale"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

This baby Western Diamondback Rattlesnake was found hanging out on the porch of a Scottsdale home near the McDowell Sonoran Preserve.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

With that much native desert close by, finding a young rattlesnake exploring a property like this isn\u2019t especially surprising. At this size, these snakes are out navigating the same landscape as the adults, just on a much smaller scale.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Mark captured the little Western Diamondback and relocated it within its estimated home range, releasing it directly into a packrat nest beneath a large tree. With deep cover and plenty of rodents around, it should have everything it needs to hopefully grow into a much bigger Western Diamondback.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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This baby Western Diamondback Rattlesnake was found hanging out on the porch of a Scottsdale home near the McDowell Sonoran Preserve. With that much native desert close by, finding a young rattlesnake exploring a property like this isn\u2019t especially surprising. At this size, these snakes are out navigating the same landscape as the adults, just […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":9574,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[10,5],"tags":[116,111,8,138],"class_list":["post-9572","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-arizona-snakes","category-snake-removal","tag-arizona-snake-removal","tag-scottsdale","tag-snake-removal","tag-western-diamondback-rattlesnake"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/rattlesnakesolutions.com\/snakeremoval\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9572","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=9572"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/rattlesnakesolutions.com\/snakeremoval\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9572\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9576,"href":"https:\/\/rattlesnakesolutions.com\/snakeremoval\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9572\/revisions\/9576"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rattlesnakesolutions.com\/snakeremoval\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/9574"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/rattlesnakesolutions.com\/snakeremoval\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9572"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rattlesnakesolutions.com\/snakeremoval\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9572"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rattlesnakesolutions.com\/snakeremoval\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9572"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}