Why did the snake cross the road?

To get out of the way of the car. Pictures by Gretchen Quarterman, 29 August 2009, Lowndes County, Georgia. Click through to the big picture to count the 9 rattles on this timber rattler.

Update: added links to just the snake

and just the rattles

for those who had trouble finding them. Also, the snake was crossing our driveway to our house, not the public road. We like rattlesnakes. They eat mice. We don’t like mice. Snake snack on mice?

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