MY New Friend

[spawn00x]

Met him in October

 

[sniffer]

from the look of his eyes, and the fact you got that close without a defense reaction, I'd say he was ready to shed his old skin
great pic

Sniffer

 

[seger98]

Is that a black rat snake? And the wife wants to know if it's far enough away from Alabama

 

[sniffer]

by the shape of the head and size, probably a western diamond back

 

[Cynangyl]

I'm with Kathy...hope it is a long way from here too!!

 

[spawn00x]

I'm thinking black-tailed or western diamondback rattlesnake. this was up at Aden Crater Volcano in southern New Mexico.

 

[River Rat]

You can keep your friend. I don't like his looks and I pray I never meet anything that looks like that.

RR

 

[Sierra Kid]

He looks pretty big and healthy.

 

[spawn00x]

I figure it was over 3 feet

 

[sniffer]

I wouldn't mind meeting him, as long as he understands, I like to maintain some distance LOL

 

[SoreKneesDayton]

I am told that if you get down close and look into their eye's, from the side, you can tell if they are poisonous. At least that is what Dumb Pete told me.

SKD

 

[sniffer]

now I wonder, why do they call him dumb Pete?? LOL

 

[muleskinner]

I'ld like to introduce him to my shovel.

 

[NGE]

The only way I'd want to meet him is his skin around my waist and his body in da skillet ......NGE

 

[panelman]

I'm not a chickens#!* but that right there would concern me. Nice pic!

 

[rginn]

I don't know where you found him at, but he looks a lot like a timber rattler. They're darker, and they're very mean. They don't see any need to rattle and warn you. I would have to see it in real life to tell more. That boy of mine does research on reptiles and has published some studies in "Herpetologica" and he would know more about it. He'd want to catch it and bring it home. I don't know about those eyes, if it's getting ready to shed or it's just the photo. Ya'll remember this. When snakes of all kinds get ready to shed, the skin over the eyes clouds over and they are essentially blind for a short time. Out of self-defense they will strike far more readily at anything they sense near them. I don't kill snakes anymore. I just pass on by and leave them be.

 

[spawn00x]

I found him in Southern New Mexico in October. He rattled right before I got to close.