Posted on 03/11/2013 6:09:06 PM PDT by nickcarraway
Don’t be sorry...I love personal stories like that. My area of western Wisconsin is extremely rocky and hilly. It’s known to be a good area for rattlesnakes, but they’re almost all exclusively up in the hills. I do like to walk in a state park that’s right on the Mississippi. There are numerous bluffs lining the river. Snakes will come down from the rocks to get water. About ten years ago I was walking a path close to the water’s edge. In the middle of the path was a huge, diamondback rattler. But very dead. (flies buzzing around) How it died, I don’t know. But it still gave me the creeps to step over the carcass. But that’s the only time I’ve ever encountered a rattler-dead or alive despite a lifetime of walking the bluffs in my area.
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