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Since I can't! I also posted this in the rattlesnake forum.

Found this guy in front of our garage tonight. The camera couldn't focus too well 'cause it was dark, and it washed out the red a lot. It was maybe 12 inches long, probably a lil longer. North County San Diego area, about an hour inland and an hour north of San Diego itself. Mountainous Desert kind of area.

Without further ado, the pictures:

Thanks!

~jenny
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"The python has, and I fib no fibs,
318 pairs of ribs.
In stating this I place reliance
On a seance with one who died for science
This figure is sworn to and attested,
He counted them while being digested."
~Ogden Nash

jenny.thegreenes.org

"If you're happy and you know it,
Bomb Iraq!
If you cannot find Osama,
Bomb Iraq!
If the terrorists are frisky,
Pakistan is looking shifty,
North Korea is too risky,
Bomb Iraq!

mojave mabey

That is a colorful little helleri you have there. Crotalus v. helleri to be precise. Quite a toxic snake...
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Cheers
Lateralis
"I would rather be precisely wrong than approximately right"
Marion "Doc" Ford

Well, to be really precise, it's C.o. helleri.....tsk, tsk Lat, you know that! What's up man, that RxR proximity affected your thinking...lol.

For J3nny, also called the Southern Pacific Rattlesnake. They are very common in our area.

Eimon

Eimon's right, it's Crotalus o. velleri. (found my lil species list)

Thanks much!

~jenny
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"The python has, and I fib no fibs,
318 pairs of ribs.
In stating this I place reliance
On a seance with one who died for science
This figure is sworn to and attested,
He counted them while being digested."
~Ogden Nash

jenny.thegreenes.org

"If you're happy and you know it,
Bomb Iraq!
If you cannot find Osama,
Bomb Iraq!
If the terrorists are frisky,
Pakistan is looking shifty,
North Korea is too risky,
Bomb Iraq!