didn't exactly want to stick my foot next to it for scale...

[Kali]

but it was pretty small, I think the first I have seen for the summer

[CaliforniaPeggy]

1. EEK! My dear Kali!

Somehow, I think you're much better suited to living there than I would be...

[Kali]

3. at least this was outside and a couple miles from the house

and not under my freaking DESK

the oldest kid got stung by a scorpion last night and even the locals at work were so awed they sent him home from work early - and they work at a fertilizer/explosives plant! wimps this is the same young man who one time in kindergarten, wore a scorpion in his shoe all day.

[NRaleighLiberal]

2. Rattler? We are on the lookout for Copperheads during our evening dog walks...

each of our chocolate labs have been bitten over the past few years. Not easy to see curled up on the grass at the side of the road. Yep - it's that time!

[Kali]

5. yep, looks like a little diamondback

it was dark and I was taking the pix blind out of the drivers side window.

I run my dogs with the truck at night (yes I am lazy - but my dogs are in GREAT shape ) and they spotted it first.

None of the current ones have been bit, but we have had a few that survived multiple bites and few that did not.

[mnhtnbb]

15. I've been seeing dead copperheads in the street for awhile--little ones--run over.

We had a dog which was bitten some years ago.

[onehandle]

4. Keep Calm...

[Kali]

6. it never moved

looks kind of like it might have a mouse or something in the upper left, 11 o'clock position

[GoCubsGo]

13. They ususally dont move.

The vast majority of rattlers and cottonmouths I have encountered stay coiled up like that unless you get right in their faces. I have encountered hundreds of them. I have even seen a few that would be in the same spot the next day. The only time I ever had a rattler rattle at me was when I nearly stumbled on it. Damn good thing I saw it. It was a five foot Eastern canebrake. Nearly scared the crap out of me. Its head was almost as big as my fist.

[Brigid]

7. A pygmy rattlesnake?

[MiddleFingerMom]

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[libodem]

9. That snake has been hanging out

With those cartoon cats in red tennis shoes. Can't think of the cartoonist's name. I remember the little ditty.

[MiddleFingerMom]

10. B. Kliban

[libodem]

11. I loved those cats

Used to have a calendar with them on it. Hope rehab is treating you well.


You know the drill. No rest for the wicked.

[pinboy3niner]

12. Nice pic!

Stay safe out there, Kali.

[dixiegrrrrl]

14. around here the non-venomous rat snakes have VERY similar coloring.

Our rattlers and the rat snakes both get to 6 feet easily, and when I see one stretched out on the path enjoying the sun,
I do not get close enough to decipher the subtle differences in coloring.
Except the black rat snakes..they are easy to spot.
and damned if there are not green ones that like to hang down from tree branches.
Glad the heat forces me indoors in the summer.

[LeftofObama]

16. Small?!

It doesn't look small to me!

[Tuesday Afternoon]

17. he blends in so well with the terrain ...

It is That time of year !

I haven't seen any yet .... usually have seen a copperhead or black snake by this time. Not Complaining, mind you

[mokawanis]

18. Beautiful creature

but I wouldn't want it for a pet.