Off to the beach this weekend! (also a rattlesnake)

[PINJOHN]

best of luck with your herping hope you spot your rattler [before he spots you] you have reminded me i promised to report back on any herps from my vacation in turkey pretty unspectacular i'm afraid just one snake seen and that was dead and decomposing some kind of racer i think. sorry for hijacking your thread Lora but it wasn't worth a whole thread to report such a lack of success

[BLUESIRTALIS]

Im going to north myrtle beach in three weeks and i hope i can find me an ery eastern. If anyone knows of a good spot let me know please.

Thanks

[RedSidedSPR]

Let ME know! I'm going to N. Myrtle soon too!

[d_virginiana]

Well, I did get to see a rattler today! ...In the aquarium It was still pretty entertaining though. It got up and was following my little finger up and down the wall of its cage with that curious 'ohh, I bet I could eat that' look that my snakes get right before they chomp on something. Anyways, she seemed to enjoy the little 'hunt', and so did some of the children watching.

[PINJOHN]

Well, I did get to see a rattler today! ...In the aquarium It was still pretty entertaining though. It got up and was following my little finger up and down the wall of its cage with that curious 'ohh, I bet I could eat that' look that my snakes get right before they chomp on something. Anyways, she seemed to enjoy the little 'hunt', and so did some of the children watching.

i envy you your rattler experience, and it was in someways as interesting as a meeting in the wild, this way you were able to interact with the snake which couldn't happen in the wild,or at leased not without an unfortunate outcome.
after thamnophis and natrix i have always been drawn to and fascinated by rattlers, come to think about it it is probably the rattler that started my interest in snakes,i have mentioned my being a western nut films and books, and i remember from being quite young, getting upset when the hero would shoot the head off the rattlesnake to save his buddy or the damsel in distress, john Wayne, Gary cooper, roy rogers, gene Autry shame on you all, you will never know how you traumatized a young boy

[BLUESIRTALIS]

I find several timber rattlesnakes each year i usually find them crossing the road at night so i just pick them up with my snake hook and put them on the other side.

[PINJOHN]

I find several timber rattlesnakes each year i usually find them crossing the road at night so i just pick them up with my snake hook and put them on the other side.

an experience i can only dream of

[RedSidedSPR]

Only one I've seen was the one in our museam. Hustling Loras. He'll climb up to get to me.

[BLUESIRTALIS]

Here is a pic of a baby i caught and kept for a pet.

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[RedSidedSPR]

Gotta get me one a those!