Date: June 14, 2014
I encountered five rattlesnakes last year. This elder sprawled across a hiking path in Whiting Ranch Wilderness Park that I was descending. I worked my way around him and took several shots with my zoom lens.
I don’t believe in killing rattlesnakes. They eat rodents and rodents carry fleas which carry plague. Rattlesnakes are my friends, though ones I keep at a safe distance.