Saw this on FB from the superb Texas Hill Country (great photography and more) and was reminded of one time on the Deschutes River when a friend pointed out a rattler in a tree near the water’s edge. I was oblivious that time, but some thirty years later I never fail to look upward too.
Bears and rattle snakes seem to like bird and squirrel feeders. Different food sources no doubt. So, some consider it more rare for a rattle snake to be in a tree, they (the various species) have a history of doing so.
SwittersB & Exploring 
Oh great snakes in the trees too??? Somehow the idea of walking on trails are kind of freaking me out here 😉
Tho I live far up north, I don’t think I get rattlesnakes. But we did have a cougar roaming around town lol
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You know, if I leave the urban enviro where I could get shot leaving the parking lot at work….I will opt out for bear, courgar, snakes and lightning bolts! Thanks for visiting and commenting!
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OMG I may never walk under a tree again! 🙂
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Well it is tiresome..looking up down, this way and that…up…need to move to those areas where only thing dangerous are old men, jealous wives and drug runners.
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Sounds like my kind of place 😉
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I fish a river in the SC lowcountry that you have to watch overhead for gators sunning themselves on leaning trees.
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Ok, that is equally unsettling!
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Reblogged this on thesurvivalplaceblog.
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