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MEET Sara 👋 It’s hard to believe that ASP has been changing how people view and treat snakes for nearly TEN years! 💜🐍 A Rattlesnake Helper? Celebrate World Snake Day all year long with a Serpents of the Rainbow 2024 Calendar! 💜🐍🌈 Celebrate World Snake Day all year long with our Serpents of The Rainbow 2024 calendar! Had a nice long weekend of visiting some old friends, tucking themselves in for the long winter ahead. Tis the season for snakes looking for a place to shelter for winter. Dirk, a male Western Diamond-backed Rattlesnake, thought this garage would be a good winter den, but we helped him outside before he got trapped. From Debilitating Fear to Love (Dolores’ Saga With Snakes) Rock Rattlesnake Rookery: a pregnant female babysits in the front while a new mother rests with a baby in the background in July 2022. The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service was sued over reducing critical habitat protections for Northern Mexican and Narrow-headed Gartersnakes by more than 90%. Western Black-tailed Rattlesnake mother rests with her babies outside their nest in July 2022. We got lucky yesterday and more importantly, Huey got lucky! On one particular night, a Mohave Rattlesnake named Mo was giving me trouble. The beeping of my receiver told me he was close, but I couldn’t spot him. The desert was littered with mesquite bushes and tufts of grass — plenty of places for a snake to hide — and you couldn’t just go crashing through the brush until you found your target. For one, Mohaves are venomous. There’s nothing to fear if you keep a respectful distance, and the snake gaiters we all wore helped protect our lower legs, but caution was still warranted. “My husband took this photo while driving though the Tillamook State Forest in Oregon earlier this month (7/13/23). The Common Gartersnake was basking in the middle of the road and he gently got her to move off the road so that no other vehicles would run over her.” Photo courtesy of Aubri Murphy and Matt Aspey. We’re giving a multimedia presentation on Rattlesnake Family Life for @FriendsHuachuca at the Carr House outside Sierra Vista, Arizona tomorrow (Sunday July 30) at 1:30pm. “This Bornean Keeled Green Pit Viper was the first snake seen on a university field trip to Danum Valley in Sabah, Malaysian Borneo this year. It was a joy to spot the snake for the first time and help everyone try to spot him from a snake-friendly distance. This glorious green pit viper (the first wild pit viper I was lucky enough to see) remained in the same spot for over a week, before shifting position a couple of times over a few days before vanishing into the green of the Bornean rainforest. This photo was taken in the days before he disappeared into the jungle green, from a closer spot but still at a distance that was respectful to the snake (and the ant walking upside down on the branch beneath the serpent's head).” Photo courtesy of Jake Dudderidge. Check out this amazing series of photos of two male Western Diamond-Backed Rattlesnakes in ritual combat in the McDowell Sonoran Preserve, Scottsdale, Arizona. Photos courtesy of Donna Vetter. Spot-tailed Pitviper / Red-tailed Pitviper / Bamboo Pitviper (Trimeresurus erythrurus) “A juvenile Puerto Rican Racer moving through some bromeliads catching some sunlight.” Photo courtesy of Jose Carro / Eileen Torres; find them on YouTube @borikenophisportoricensis9600 More gorgeous Coachwhips, courtesy of Cindy Roth and her snake-friendly backyard in Golden Valley, Arizona. "We had just arrived home from a fall camping trip, and this beautiful yellow variant Eastern Ratsnake was basking right where we park our RV. Posed for us, then released to a safer corner of our yard, near Wilmington NC. Photographed by "Picture The South" @PictureTheSouth (Twitter/Mastodon) Panamint Rattlesnake, Red Rock Canyon, Nevada, June 2023. Photo courtesy of Todd Ashworth. “We found this juvenile Madrean Mountain Kingsnake crossing a road on a stormy night down in Southern Arizona. After some photos we sent this animal on their way with the hope that they will never try to cross a road again. This is one of the prettiest examples of this species I have seen in Arizona.” Photo courtesy of Francesca Heras, Wildlife Photographer @franheartsroberts 👉 Check out this interesting stripey neck! Kathy and Jim Bricker were hiking in a conservancy preserve in Cheboygan county and encounted this beautiful Eastern Hog-Nosed Snake. Photographed by Kathy Bricker, Snake Photography. ”Eyelash Viper in Costa Rica” Photo courtesy of James Vanas ”May is a great month for herping in Tucson... this fella (Western Diamond-backed Rattlesnake) was just hanging out in my backyard getting some sun.” Photo courtesy of Tom Logue ”This Rock Rattlesnake was found last summer in the Chiricahua Mountains in Arizona. To this day, they remain the most vibrant colored snake I have ever found. This picture is not edited, but it certainly appears to be.” Photo courtesy of Tucker Heptinstall @HippieHerper ”Panamint Rattlesnakes in the southeastern Sierra Nevada spend late fall, winter, and early spring together--more than half the year. During the first warm days of spring, young rattlesnakes who survived their first winter can often be observed nestled within a loose knot of one or more adult rattlesnakes.” Photo courtesy of Ceal Klingler ”I was hiking and took a path to a dead end, when I turned around I noticed this couple of Common Gartersnakes embracing in a sunny spot. I had to have literally walked over them to get where I was. I'm glad I didn't step on them and ruin the mood!” Photo courtesy of Peter Anderson @BirdmanPete1

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