Crossed my path while out birding, lots of young bull snakes around the area but not sure how to sex a snake!
About 12” in length and 1/2” in diameter. Air temperature around 60 degrees, sunny with no cloud cover.
This lovely 30-36 inch rattlesnake was sunning itself on the Johnny Ridge Road near the Yellowstone Talc mine in the Madison Valley. We shooed it off the road so it wouldn’t get hit. Was very docile and never coiled or rattled. I would call Crotalus viridis the Western Rattlesnake rather than Prairie as iNaturalist does - but anyway, here it is.
Roadkill. There were three dead within a few feet of each other, all about a foot long