gravid female speckled rattlesnake. rattle broken off. lateral undulations but latter half is "walking" like an inchworm
By Topock Route 66 Sign.
96 degrees at 5:30pm. My friends photo, he doesn’t have inaturalist so he said I could post it. He said it looked “green” and it was smaller than an adult one he saw last year
Found it crossing a dirt road. Shell ~8” long
This beautiful Southern Pacific was about to be shot as it sat beside a small pool of water when I asked if I can relocate it instead. They said yes.
And I took a video of it too. The first one I have seen in all the decades of field surveys.