{"id":47,"date":"2005-04-14T08:43:00","date_gmt":"2005-04-14T15:43:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/fireflyforest.net\/fire\/2005\/04\/14\/sabino-canyon-rattlesnake-sept-5-2004\/"},"modified":"2006-05-10T22:34:25","modified_gmt":"2006-05-11T05:34:25","slug":"blacktail-rattlesnake-in-sabino-canyon","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/fireflyforest.net\/firefly\/2005\/04\/14\/blacktail-rattlesnake-in-sabino-canyon\/","title":{"rendered":"Blacktail Rattlesnake in Sabino Canyon"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Rattlesnakes are quite common in Tucson, and I have seen dozens of them here. Although most of the rattlesnakes I see here are <a href=\"https:\/\/fireflyforest.net\/firefly\/2005\/12\/07\/western-diamondback-rattlesnakes\/\">Western Diamondbacks (Crotalus atrox)<\/a>, quite a few other species of rattlesnake can be found here as well, such as this <a href=\"http:\/\/www.reptilesofaz.com\/Snakes-Subpages\/h-c-molossus.html\">Blacktail Rattlesnake (Crotalus molossus)<\/a> I spotted in Sabino Canyon in September of 2004.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/fireflyforest.net\/images\/firefly\/2005\/April\/Blacktail-Rattlesnake.jpg\" alt=\"Blacktail Rattlesnake (Crotalus molossus)\" title=\"Blacktail Rattlesnake (Crotalus molossus)\" width=\"480\" height=\"360\" class=\"post-photo\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Actually, this rattlesnake spotted me well before I spotted it. That September, I was looking for ferns to photograph in Sabino Canyon. Desert ferns will leaf out again after our summer rains, and they are usually still around by September. I was inspecting the ferns seen in the foreground, and I had just reached out and touched the fronds when I heard a rattle and saw this venomous Blacktail Rattlesnake just inches from my hand.<\/p>\n<p>I quickly jerked my hand back out of strike range, and the Blacktail Rattlesnake ceased rattling. I am now more careful when I reach out to inspect plants, especially near overhanging rocks which are favorite resting places for rattlesnakes!<\/p>\n<p>Blacktail Rattlesnakes have a dark brown to black nose and tail tip. They also have dark, diamond-shaped patches on their backs, and each dark diamond has two, lighter blotches inside it.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Rattlesnakes are quite common in Tucson, and I have seen dozens of them here. Although most of the rattlesnakes I see here are Western Diamondbacks (Crotalus atrox), quite a few other species of rattlesnake can be found here as well, such as this Blacktail Rattlesnake (Crotalus molossus) I spotted in Sabino Canyon in September of&#8230; <a href=\"https:\/\/fireflyforest.net\/firefly\/2005\/04\/14\/blacktail-rattlesnake-in-sabino-canyon\/\" class=\"more-link\">Read More &rarr; <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-47","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-arizona-reptiles-amphibians"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/fireflyforest.net\/firefly\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/fireflyforest.net\/firefly\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/fireflyforest.net\/firefly\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fireflyforest.net\/firefly\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fireflyforest.net\/firefly\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=47"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/fireflyforest.net\/firefly\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/fireflyforest.net\/firefly\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=47"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fireflyforest.net\/firefly\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=47"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fireflyforest.net\/firefly\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=47"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}