Observaciones de larrynichols

Female, about 16" long. Active and apparently healthy. Found in the open in the middle of a just beginning to clear cloudy/sunny day. (unusual for a species which is generally crepuscular)

Observed eating a vole. The entire feeding episode, from capture of the vole to complete ingestion lasted about ten minutes. Snake was approximately 18-24" long

Sinkyone Wilderness in the vicinity of Orchard and Bear Harbor Campgrounds. Dozens of individuals, feeding especially on Jacobaea vulgaris (Tansy Ragwort)

Additional P. rattanii in Prairie Creek. CREA Trail, within the first half mile of the train from Rhododendron Trail intersection

I believe this is the first record of P. rattanii in Prairie Creek. Prairie Creek RSP, Rhododendron Trail between Brown Creek and CREA

an individual specimen with no leaf blotching. I did not know this could happen

Roadkill. Fairly large male. Nearly fresh at 4:00 in the afternoon. Only minor carcass damage from crow pecking

Dead in a flower bed at Humboldt State University. End of tail missing and generally roughed-up. Several hundred feet from the nearest wild/brushy/marshy habitat