Prairie Rattlesnake
Quite a story goes with these two images: Heidi and I were just about to leave Castlewood Canyon State Park in the early evening when another couple mentioned having seen this snake minutes before. They proved it with a cell phone picture of it crossing the trail. I couldn't find it, but then I overheard a conversation between two other hikers around a bend in the trail that included "rattlesnake." I hustled over and indeed, there it was: a lovely specimen of the Prairie Rattlesnake, Crotalus viridis viridis.
Prairie Rattlesnake
Quite a story goes with these two images: Heidi and I were just about to leave Castlewood Canyon State Park in the early evening when another couple mentioned having seen this snake minutes before. They proved it with a cell phone picture of it crossing the trail. I couldn't find it, but then I overheard a conversation between two other hikers around a bend in the trail that included "rattlesnake." I hustled over and indeed, there it was: a lovely specimen of the Prairie Rattlesnake, Crotalus viridis viridis.