Juvenile. Stayed in hike path for about 15 minutes.
dead juvenile Southern Pacific rattlesnake
Seen shortly before getting to Long Pine Key to set up some blacklights. I saw a second roadkill cottonmouth maybe 10 meters from this one on my way to Anhinga Trail around 8 AM and should've stopped to document it but I was in a hurry!
My blacklighting observations from LPK before sunrise:
https://www.inaturalist.org/observations?on=2024-04-28&order=asc&order_by=observed_on&place_id=any&project_id=blacklighting-florida&user_id=joemdo
More details in general about my 2024 City Nature Challenge:
https://www.inaturalist.org/journal/joemdo/93673-city-nature-challenge-2024