Oklahoma Is Alive With The Sounds Of Huge Rattlesnakes

If you haven't noticed, we are well above our normal temperature average this October, and Mother Nature is capitalizing on it. Above and below, you'll see what some hunters pulled out of their hunting blind this time last year, when it was just as warm. It's a massive Western Diamondback rattler measuring over ten feet long!

Now, being a SWOK hunter, it's not uncommon to run across snakes all the way into December, but it's rare that such a massive snake isn't already bedding down for its yearly cool-down period. Not quite hibernation, but a big daily catnap called brumation. When daily temps reach the lower 60's, snakes will get up and active enough to catch a sun bath. Not in a sense to hunt and feed, just to warm up. A lot of snakes are like that in SWOK. It's just not consistently cold enough in this part of the country.

So whether it's thirty degrees, or a balmy sixty, keep an eye on your path. They're slow when they're cold, but they also don't normally give a warning before a strike.