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This pic was taken in the Phoenix Mountains Preserve, round about Paradise Valley Mall, 8 PM. The photo files are very large and Kingsnake doesn't wanna upload 'em, so I've put them on Picasa here, a closeup and a farther away body shot:

http://picasaweb.google.com/Bonehead800/ArizonaAnimals#5348511647540844610

http://picasaweb.google.com/Bonehead800/ArizonaAnimals#5348511753387322594

Cheers! Hopefully I'll start to see enough that I'll get better at ID, but this guy is the first I've seen since moving out two weeks ago

Tiger Rattlesnake (Crotalus tigris)
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Chris Harrison
San Antonio, Texas

Thanks! Appreciate the info

Although I live in Tucson, I am not familiar with the Phx Mountains so I don't know which snakes are most common in those hills. Still, according to range maps, it could be a Tiger but it could also be a Speckled Rattle Snake. You can get some pretty distinct stripes on a Speck. The easiest answer lies in a part of the snake that the pictures don't show - the tail. Specks have a "coon tail" like Diamondbacks.