Beautiful! I’ve never seen a pygmy rattler, had no idea they were so pretty. Out in W. TX where we spent many years, we had diamond backs, and while they are pretty, growing up with them it was hard to think of them as anything other than something to avoid. I knew a boy, growing up, who stepped into a nest of them and was bitten several times. He lost his leg, but he lived.
Do we have pygmy rattlers out here (S. Florida, Delray Beach)? I’ve seen a few coral snakes (mostly dead in the road) and other non poisonous ones. Out in East Texas we had LOTS of copper heads and water moccosins. I think we had rattlers but I never saw one.
susie
Should be plenty down there. They usually blend in better, but this one was molting and appeared lighter in color.