[Little Big Man]

48 incher from last year. Didn’t know if he wanted to identify as a black phase or yellow phase. Depended how the sun hit him. I called him a tweener.

 

[Little Big Man]

All snakes are measured, sexed and released. The big males you can tell right away. I still measure and count their subcaudal scales.

 

[LIVTOHUNT]

I just go by if they don't try and catch me I won't try and catch them, you are braver than I am.

 

[rugered]

Would love to try this sometime. I see plenty of rattlers but catching them just doesn't seem like something I want to depend on YouTube training for! Sort of like fly fishing, best to have a mentor, only in this case the consequences of ignorance are much more serious.

 

[John-PA]

That's a dark phase

 

[Little Big Man]

Like I said. Depending how the sunlight shone it looked dark yellow at times and other times looked like a black phase.

 

[Little Big Man]

Here is a black phase. The other one is a tweener.

 

[Patrapper01]

Here is a black phase. The other one is a tweener.

their eye color matches what color phase they are also

 

[John-PA]

Thank you Patrapper, the first snake is a dark phase.

 

[Little Big Man]

Thank you Patrapper, the first snake is a dark phase.

So you actually handled this snake to make that determination?

 

[Little Big Man]

their eye color matches what color phase they are also

False

 

[John-PA]

I don't need to, I handle hundreds of timbers every summer and I know the color phase. Patrapper is 100% correct that the eye color matches the color phase.

 

[John-PA]

The tail is completely black with a rattle. The head is large, flat and triangular, with two thermal-sensitive pits between the eyes and the nostrils. The timber rattlesnake’s head color has two distinct color phases. The black phase has a completely black head with black eyes, and the yellow phase has a yellow head and yellow eyes.
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The Timber Rattlesnake - Pennsylvania Fish & Boat Commission

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[John-PA]

If you need any more info on them just ask.

 

[Little Big Man]

Caught a black one today with yellow eyes.

 

[John-PA]

Congrats, you'd be the first person to ever do so!

 

[Patrapper01]

Caught a black one today with yellow eyes.

I guess there are anomalies in nature, do you have a pic? That would be interesting, I've never seen or heard of it.

 

[Little Big Man]

Best pic I have. Was about a 3 1/2 footer. Looked like a male. Didn’t tube him. More of a brown color. Dark head. Yellow eyes. Hard to tell from the pic. Trying to get more from my buddy. We were trying a new camera out.

 

[Little Big Man]

 

[Little Big Man]

Zoomed in the best I could.