Relocated

To live another day. She was planning on
wintering under my feed container, couldn't have her that close.

Pass.

WOW that is a big snake right there!

Nope, I ain't doin it.

Well played.......she will eat alot of rats and mice.....

That is a big snake. You need a longer snake grabber.

She was heavy, bending the pole.

Nyet.

But, I do want to know how you sexed her. I come here to learn, not "to teach".

Wow!

Second thing that came to my mind Sex

Hope she does not do a Lorena Bobbitt and come back and get you

Cool pic Stompy

Females have more black and white bands on the tail. It’s been awhile, but I believe males have 3-4 and females have 5-6. Something like that.

She is healthy

Actually, it's probably a male. Males are bigger than females and have longer tails. He was a big one, pics didn't do him justice but that's as close as the wife would get.

Over the past 12 years, that makes about 20 I've relocated from just around that one container. One day I got 5 from around it.

If you got 5 from around it, I bet there are twice that many under it. Sure glad we don't have them in East Texas.

Creek, for you to learn, and me too, then somebody has got "to teach." Thank goodness we got plenty "teachers" on here.

Wouldn't doubt that.

Thats a big un

Really nice one.....

I am not mad at that one bit

nice.

I’ve never heard that regarding sex but have between species. Western diamondbacks have 5-7 bands on their tail whereas southern pacific rattlesnakes only have 3-4....

Westerners have more of a “bad” attitude, but the venom of the southern pacific is a nastier cocktail.....

When you say relocate, glad I am not your neighbor.

When you say relocate, glad I am not your neighbor.

Big'un

Yikes, that is a large specimen .

I was wrong, after a little digging it’s the Mojave and not the southern pacific I was thinking of....I don’t have my snake book with me.

God a'mighty. That gives me chills.

I relocated ones head this morning. He was lying in the shade of a liveoak. Not as big as that one, Stompy.

Dang

That is one well fed rattler!!

you need to mothball that container

good deed

most likely lots of mice & rats

Big ole snake.
Glad you relocated it.
I caught and relocated 4 this year.
3 from my fenced backyard.
1 from my front yard.
But they were all little guys.
Accidentally ran over another one with the lawnmower.