This is a terribly posed photo, one of the victims of rushed herping. Anyone that does this knows the conflict of being under the gun as the sun starts to get things going while you’re still miles away from where you’re going to spend the day, and finding a snake! I see enough gophersnakes, but I got a rushed photo anyway with a bit of backdrop behind this big old girl.
Tags: affinis, catenifer, gophersnake, pituophis, Yavapai County
