Today we split into two groups to map areas in our assigned project areas. The group I was in, which included Rachel and Kevin, got to beat the school's record for number of rattlesnakes seen in one day. We saw at least 9 in approx 8 hours in the field today. That's about 9 too many for me.
Considering it was a 90+ degree day, the only active snakes were in the morning with most of them being super lethargic by noon. The "den" of snakes below didn't even rattle at us and we were 6-8 feet away. This is also why the count is "at least 9" snakes: we for sure saw 3 rattles in this mass of snakes, but none of us were positive that we counted all the snakes. The general consensus was that it was very likely that there was 4-5 snakes total hiding in the shade here, but we only counted 3 of them.
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That is way too many snakes to see in one day.
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