Story was in the paper yesterday, 78" long. A highway mowing crew found the snake, animal control captured it, and AR Game/Fish relocated it to the Felsenthal Wildlife Management Area. This being a large swamp where nobody goes anyway because of all the gators.
Thank you for that extra note, Laze. It's always good to hear that they didn't kill this important part of the ecological chain. [img]/forums/images/icons/smile.gif[/img]
Here's a Timber Rattler that was killed by my cattle farmer neighbor this evening. His wife discovered it coiled by the mailbox and I heard her scream almost 1/4 mile away. Ol' codger has more moxie than me going after that thing with a machete. 14 buttons and right at 6' in length.
We have good numbers of Timbers around here and in my experience they are not aggressive at all. The problem is, like Copperheads, they hide very well and do not use their rattles to warn you as a Diamondback would.
Hehe, I took that picture Bird, I told him to hold it out to the side for ya. Looks kinda anorexic though compared to the Diamondback of similar length, I've certainly seen fatter Timbers.
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