Perry wrote:Pi, I had thought perhaps that was really a Red Diamond, but after looking it up I think you're right, it does look like a variation of the Speckled.
yup, i spent 17 years figuring it out.
the "give away" is the bands on the tail from what i can see, they are just rings...
i have a friend/biologist and they say the variations in snakes is amazing!
some locals just call them rock rattlers..because that's all we have in the rocks out here, they blend in nicely to the decomposed granite & quartz monzonite
otherwise there are no other color rocks for them to have adapted to, or forest for that matter.
evidently not as painful bite as black widow spider bites.... from a numskull i know that's been bitten by both!
even the deer, bunnies, fox, coyote, and mountain lion and bighorn seem to have the same color as each other out here! brownish....hahaha
IT'S HOT......i'm ready for cooler weather...hottest darn summer yet!!!!
Let the summer be over, RIP summer 2018!!!