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Old 09-11-2012, 03:16 PM
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Originally Posted by happy employee View Post
We do, In fact have eastern diamondbacks in the area. You will sometimes see them in the early evening stretched out across a road gathering the heat from the blacktop. The adult eastern diamondback is usually very thick in the middle. sometimes as thick as a man's arm and can also be identified by the rattles. Sometimes the rattles can get broken off so NEVER ASSUME what kind of snake it is. If you don't know, LEAVE IT ALONE!!!!!
I would agree with that -- if ANY snake as thick as my arm is on my property I will call Animal Control. So far all I've seen are little fellows about 1-2' long.