Im starting to see just how great the antelope valley is. We have tons of mojaves but a short detour takes you into the foothills where you can find southern pacific rattlers too. These two like different types of habitat, but we are now having no trouble finding both species within 10 mins of each other (one night it was more like 2 mins).

Here is the beautiful mojave rattlesnake:

And here is a southern pacific, which was dying on the road unfortunatly:

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