Mark it on the calendar: first time Gretchen ever saw a snake first.
![[Canebrake rattlesnake]](http://www.okraparadisefarms.com/pictures/2022-08-17--rattlesnake/20220817_172746.jpg)
All the dogs and I walked right past this timber rattler in the front driveway.
She didn’t think I should pick up this Crotalus horridus. I don’t know why.
-jsq
Category Archives: Rattlesnake
Snake of Yesterday 2021-10-12
The dogs alerted me to this.
![[Snake in the leaves]](http://www.okraparadisefarms.com/pictures/2021-10-12--canebrake-rattlesnake/big/20211012_163732.jpg)
Fortunately, they kept their distance.
How many rattles do you count?
-jsq
Snake of the day 2017-12-22
Rattler
Snaky motion across the road to Chesser Island, Okefenokee NWR, November 19th 2016.
Rattler
Canebrake, rattlesnake, Crotalus horridus, timber rattlesnake, in the road at Okefenokee NWR.
Tractor snake
No rattles, didn’t coil, seemed like a harmless little oak snake.
No bigger than from the O to the A in GOODYEAR (less than two feet long). Continue reading
What’s in the fun box?
Well, that looks like fun!
Let’s open it up and see: Continue reading
Snake of the night
The dogs found this, about one foot from the house:
Yep, it’s a timber rattler. You can’t see the rattles in this picture (although you can in these other ones by Gretchen), but it had three.
So I put it in a box. It didn’t like that: it really rattled. We drove it to a better spot in the woods, where it’s very happy now.
Good dogs, Yellow Dog and Brown Dog! They notified us but did not try to bite the snake.
Pictures by John S. Quarterman and Gretchen Quarterman, Lowndes County, Georgia, 1 June 2011.
-jsq
Update 8:45 AM 3 July 2011: Fixed picture link and added link to flickr set with Gretchen’s additional pictures.
What’s in the log?
Are there snakes there?
Answering Nancy’s question:
Why yes, there are snakes. This timber rattler was crawling into the vines: Continue reading