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Day: June 4, 2018
Chicks! Fluff balls are fun to paint.
Oil on paper. 6×8.
This Timber Rattlesnake (Crotalus horridus) slithered away to reveal these four (theres a hidden fifth) Eastern Copperheads (Agkistrodon contortrix). Hudson Valley NY USA
This is my experience with maternal protection with timbers: I had seen this snake earlier in the year and its response was always to quickly retreat back into its crevice. However when I found this snake the day I took this photo it was originally in its crevice, but after I stood there for a minute or so it came out of its crevice and sat in front of the babies and rattled. Just one experience but it was certainly neat, and not a behavior I had seen prior.The first photo is about a minute before the second. New York. Timber Rattlesnake (Crotalus horridus)
Timber Rattlesnakes (Crotalus horridus). Cumberland Co., PA. September 13, 2008.This female was very protective of her brood; she absolutely refused to abandon them as I photographed them for about an hour, leaving and returning several times.
Urocyon's Jaunts 2.0 
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