This guy was parked in an EV spot!

Good choice!

 

so....did you spend five hours staring at the little critter?

 

In the late 1970s, my wife and took a vacation in our Cherokee 140 and flew into Arrowhead State Park in Oklahoma. We had two bicycles, a tent, and clothes in the back. We landed and put the bikes together and I had the backpack holding the tent and clothes. As we rode down to the camp ground, I noticed your parking attendants younger cousins flattened to about 2-3 mm.

We setup the tent, got dinner and loaded up the next morning when my wife asked if there were any snakes around. I dismissed her concerns but as we pedaled up the hill, I pointed out one of the flatten cousins ... she beat me up the hill. Regardless, I snagged a free rattle.

Good on keeping the critter alone as he was keeping the wiring chewing rodents at bay.

Bob Wilson

 

You literally got snaked!

 

Right of way...no question. Hate those things. Oh, was there an apple anywhere close?

 

Is that the new Dodge Viper?

 

Lived here all my life, hunted, fished, hiked everywhere and have yet to see one alive. But they are tasty. Just like chicken.

 

You've got to watch the little ones. They don't know how much venom to inject and unload on you.

If he did that here today, he'd already be cooked. It's 97° air temp and probably 130° on the asphalt. Zero wind. Arg.

 

Congratulations on being an EV-er with a good sense of humor.

+1 on Bob's comments about the snake, although I'm quite understanding of a more kinetic response for poisonous examples.
Were I to be alone and not on my property, the snake would have lived to eat rodents another day.

......however (comma!) on my property or within sight (or hearing) of my beloved family it would be a different matter entirely.

 

It's a good thing you saw it because it could have slithered into your engine/come into your car above the pedal.

 

the snake looked up at the big cable, and said MOMMA

 

I had a big black snake get into my car when I was a kid. That was not fun.

 

Is that a copperhead or a rattler? Must be your serpentine belt.

 

Rattlesnake my eye; that is an electric eel, and it belongs there!

 

With the close-up of the head, I'm wondering if it was a sidewinder:

Coloration is right and the posture is different from the Eastern and Western diamond backs. Single button, suggests a young one. I would hate to think it might have been attracted by the big black cables thinking they might be a tastee black snake.

Bob Wilson

 

No, it's a Prairie Rattlesnake (Crotalus viridis) found in Colorado up to 9,500 ft.

Colorado Snakes.

 

I wonder if there is an app to identify snakes ? I have one that can identify plants by taking a picture of a leaf.