I had a startling snake encounter today. I was up on the roof of my airstream motorhome doing some cleaning and servicing the AC unit.
The curved roof is not an easy place to be. You have to stay on the areas with ribs under the aluminum skin.
This makes for being in awkward positions while working up there.
So while streched out with scrub bush in hand I noticed movement by my other hand that was helping me to ballence over the beam as I worked.
The movement turned out to be a small snake about 6 inches from my hand. It looked somewhat like a pigmy rattlesnake. It had the triangular shaped head and the right coloration, But had no rattles and was not being aggressive towards me.
Not being in a position to scamper out of the way. So I used the scrub brush to flick it off the roof.
This got it well away from me so I could continue with the task at hand, once my heart settled down. Quite surprising finding it up there but not totally, as I am parked right close to the lower branches of our largest live oak tree. Before climbing down I trimmed the lower branches hanging down touching the roof.
