Colorado’s Larimer County ‘Rattlesnake Mega Den’ is getting active again

[cnelk]

Live cam here

Watch hundreds of rattlesnakes in Colorado 'mega den' emerge from hibernation

For the second summer, hundreds of rattlesnakes in a Colorado "mega den" are being livestreamed as part of Project RattleCam.

www.usatoday.com

 

[HairyScandinavian]

Seems like a good place for a MOAB lol.

 

[accountantsanonymous]

 

[Corey0372]

How do I unsee that ?

 

[Nickofthewoods]

 

[CorbLand]

Remember all the stuff about how Americans would drop a 100,000 dollar bomb on a 100 dollar tent in Afghanistan? Yea, well they could drop two of those on that den.

 

[Muledeerfanatic]

I love how people are so scared of snakes

 

[wytx]

Spouse has a big den on their family place along the Red River.
Pretty cool to see all those big diamondbacks coming out to sun.

We know of one up by Medicine Bow too, big prairie rattlers live in it.
We relocate lots of prairie rattlers all summer, out of the meadows we irrigate.

 

[MeatInTheFreezer]

 

[HairyScandinavian]

I love how people are so scared of snakes

I'm not scared of them I'd rather have nonvenomous around. We kill quite a few at our fish camp with flat nose shovels or flounder gigs in the barn and garage, dog got bit jumping on a snake that was right behind my wife grilling lunch on the pit. Don't need them, their void can be filled by nonvenomous varieties.

 

[JohnJohnson]

I love how people are so scared of snakes

It does amuse the heck out of me. My original path in college was to study venomous snakes before I diverted to another area of research. They're beautiful and snake venom is fascinating. You can thank snake venom for ACE inhibitors as well as a lot of other medications.

 

[TSAMP]

Spouse has a big den on their family place along the Red River.
Pretty cool to see all those big diamondbacks coming out to sun.

We know of one up by Medicine Bow too, big prairie rattlers live in it.
We relocate lots of prairie rattlers all summer, out of the meadows we irrigate.

Is spouse the same as "partner"? Just sayin

 

[Beendare]

I had 4 on my back lawn recently- grin

 

[TaperPin]

Baby snakes have to be the worse invention ever. Cute little night crawler-sized with no rattles. Where do they go? As a kid we watched them come out of a den and cross a road, then in all my years I’ve never seen another small snake between that size and 1-1/2’ long. They are there, hiding in plain view, but where? Nobody knows.

 

[htlt_surfboards]

Baby snakes have to be the worse invention ever. Cute little night crawler-sized with no rattles. Where do they go? As a kid we watched them come out of a den and cross a road, then in all my years I’ve never seen another small snake between that size and 1-1/2’ long. They are there, hiding in plain view, but where? Nobody knows.

Saw this one that was probably 10" last week on a trial.

 

[mostlybirch]

this is really cool thank you. snakes are rad even big bad venomous ones

 

[Muledeerfanatic]

I'm not scared of them I'd rather have nonvenomous around. We kill quite a few at our fish camp with flat nose shovels or flounder gigs in the barn and garage, dog got bit jumping on a snake that was right behind my wife grilling lunch on the pit. Don't need them, their void can be filled by nonvenomous varieties.

I could say the same about most people
Especially all the texans moving here

 

[HairyScandinavian]

I could say the same about most people
Especially all the texans moving here

*Yawn

I don't like people either though lol

 

[EastHumboldt]

Rattlers don’t scare me… until they do. I’ve had several very close encounters that made my gut clench and my hair stand up, because they were super close and they surprised me. To their credit none offered to bite.

There’s one of those nests in Jacks Valley near Carson City and I avoid that area in the spring.

For some weird reason I have always liked reptiles an unreasonable amount. Course I also like crazy women, and mean little dogs….

 

[wytx]

Is spouse the same as "partner"? Just sayin

He's my husband, and my partner.
Sux to be lonely I guess.