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Very cool!

Years ago, I was driving a dirt road in the hills above Santa Barbara and found a California King snake.

Earlier today, I saw a video on FB of a guy that ran across a very young, very small pygmy rattlesnake. It was shocking how small it was. Not the same video, but similar. My guess is that the lense cap in this vid is maybe 2" across.



A year or two ago, I went out one morning and found what must have been a very young copperhead in the driveway. I think it was ~12" long, and it's head was probably the size of a peanut (out of the shell, just the nut that we eat). It looked like it would have had a hard time biting me (but I wasn't going to tempt it). All of the copperheads that I've run into on our property have been very timid.