Southern Pacific Rattlesnake (Crotalus oreganus helleri)

Created: February 13th, 2011 - 10:46 PM
Last Modified: February 14th, 2011 - 10:08 AM Entered by: Robert and Nicholas Hess
Record 63696

Country: United States		State: California	County: San Diego County	Time: 2011-02-12 16:30:00
Qty: 1	Age: Adult	Sex: --	Method:	Habitat: rocky hillside
Body Temperature: -----		Air Temperature: 72.00F	Ground Temperature: -----	Humidity: -----
Sky Conditions: Clear		Moon Phase: -----	Elevation: -----	Barometric Pressure: -----

Notes

This helleri was found by Nicholas during the NAFHA outing, when he was by himself for a few minutes walking from Kent V. to another group who had just found a juvenile kingsnake further up the hill. He casually called out "helleri" the way and the rest of the group looked at and someone asked: "He's just kidding right." But Nicholas was already taking pictures, and I knew right away that, no, he was not kidding :-)

It was the first snake, and a rattlesnake on top of that, that Nicholas has found all by himself and it made his day. There was never any danger as he saw the helleri when he was still 20 feet away and she buzzed him when got within 15 feet. He also wore his gators and leather boots.

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Comments

Posted by Robert and Nicholas Hess on Feb 14, 2011 at 10:11 AM

Thanks, Brian. It was a big moment for him, one that I am sure he will never forget.

Thanks to your comment, I also realized that I had entered the wrong county - LA County - because I use LA as a default setting. The NAFHA outing was in SD County. Same for the Granite Spiny I entered.

Posted by Brian Hinds-AKA Fundad on Feb 14, 2011 at 08:24 AM

Congrats to Nicholas, We ALL remember our first snake on our own, when we were kids... He'll never forget it..