a rattlesnake in the bottom of a white plastic bucket, illuminated by a flashlight. It looks tiny in the bucket, but it's actually about 3 feet long. It mostly brown with darker brown shapes surrounded by white and black speckled scales that create a border around the darker brown shapes.

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   My camera shoots fascists (mikal@sfba.social)'s status on Sunday, 26-Apr-2026 16:18:48 JST My camera shoots fascists

   I have some new neighbors across the street, from the Pacific Northwest. We've chatted a few times and yesterday I gave them a whole bunch of cuttings off of my cactus here to help them landscape their yard. I was talking about all the lizards and snakes that live here and how I had to catch and relocate a rattlesnake from under the crawlspace in my house. I suggested to them that they look into rattlesnake aversion training for their dog.

   I also said that if they found a rattlesnake in the yard, I'd be happy to come get it and relocate it. Jinx, I guess, because she walked over this evening and said that there was rattler in their yard. A western diamondback, like the one that was under my house. Absolutely beautiful snake with 14 rattles! It's much bigger than it looks like curled up in the photos in the bucket.

   Alt text in first pic has info about distinguishing western diamondbacks from Mojave rattlesnakes.

   #Rattlesnake #HerpReport #Herpetology #LifeInTheSonoranDesert #Snake