This little fellow - approx. 4-feet in length - was knocked silly by a passing car near some houses in our neighborhood. When I stopped to investigate it was still very much alive. I was looking at it through the camera from about 10-feet not convinced that the snake couldn't strike or fly through the air to bite me!
All was fine until some ol' boy in a pickup stopped to investigate and commenced to "poking" the snake with a stick.
This shot was after it uncoiled and started crawling toward the dummy with the stick.
The sound the rattles made was not like what one hears on television. I'll never forget it.
