Here’s one of the Southwestern Speckled Rattlesnakes, Crotalus mitchelli pyrrhus, from Yavapai County. In this location, they’re often this salmon pink and blue eyed combo, though the eyes aren’t truly blue … just grey, but look blue against the reddish background. Cool snakes.
Here are a few of the 20 or so sidewinders easily found in an evening and about an hour of the next, as can be done nearly any Spring evening in much of Arizona.
For some reason, these sidewinders (Crotalus cerastes) just look cooler when found on sunbleached gravel.
Here’s a really pretty desert phase Blacktailed Rattlesnake, Crotalus molossus, from a seldom herped area in Yavapai county. Every molossus I’ve seen in this area is a knock out, and this one is no exception. I was able to get in close for a photo and leave again without it waking up.
Blacktail
Here’s where he was sitting when found:
Crotalus molossus molossus
We found this little guy out basking in the middle of a road … not a smart way to start life kid.
I see these mouse-sized scorpions all over the place in the Sonoran desertscrub. I always stop to play with them at least once.
Here’s a typical Western Diamondback Rattlesnake, Crotalus atrox, from a relocation call to North Phoenix.
This Glossy Snake, Arizona elegans noctivaga, was especially large, maybe a third larger than the next closest individual. It was found in a relatively cool grassland, as well, out and about in the monsoons. This first photo should serve as comparison to the gophersnake-ish size of this beast.
These are three very commonly seen lizards in the Sonoran scrublands, but couldn’t live more different livestyles than one another.
… and one more of that last guy, since he is awesome.
After a lot of searching … multiple weeks and hundreds of miles, I finally saw my first blacktailed rattlesnake, Crotalus molossus, in Eastern New Mexico.
Crotalus molossus
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