Last Sunday - 2006-11-29- we took advantage of the unseasonable warm weather and went looking for Prairie Rattlesnakes in
Broken Kettle Grasslands, just north of Souix City.
We found this little guy first. He is your average Bull Snake, but an exceptionally pretty one in my opinion.
He thought he was a vicious little critter though.
Yellow Bellied Racer
The Loess Hills
Corwin found the land managers yellow lab more interesting than the snakes.
We found 4 Prairie Rattlers and caught 3. I say we, but I didn't do any actual catching as I had Corwin on my back. Plus I'm more than a bit scared of the pit vipers, so I leave the handling of them to friends with experience, skill and the proper equipment. The snakes were measured, had the GPS locations where they were discovered recorded. The two smaller snakes were also pit tagged so that if they were caught again in the future the data could be appended to their record. The larger rattlesnake pictured had been previously pit tagged in 2001.
Last Sunday - 2006-11-29- we took advantage of the unseasonable warm weather and went looking for Prairie Rattlesnakes in Broken Kettle Grasslands, just north of Souix City.
We found this little guy first. He is your average Bull Snake, but an exceptionally pretty one in my opinion.
He thought he was a vicious little critter though.
Yellow Bellied Racer
The Loess Hills
Corwin found the land managers yellow lab more interesting than the snakes.
We found 4 Prairie Rattlers and caught 3. I say we, but I didn't do any actual catching as I had Corwin on my back. Plus I'm more than a bit scared of the pit vipers, so I leave the handling of them to friends with experience, skill and the proper equipment. The snakes were measured, had the GPS locations where they were discovered recorded. The two smaller snakes were also pit tagged so that if they were caught again in the future the data could be appended to their record. The larger rattlesnake pictured had been previously pit tagged in 2001.
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