BOBCAT ATTACKING A TIMBER RATTLESNAKE

[@hikeclimbsail]

Thank you!! Great footage❤

[@lotterhand]

Thanks for watching

[@zenphotojourney]

Very cool stuff! Thanks for all the work you do to share this with us!

[@lotterhand]

My pleasure!

[@SouthernSierraNevada]

Another great production Mark!! wow!!

[@lotterhand]

Thank you!! Luck played a big role....

[@user-mu5ny1ks6t]

You are getting amazing footage. A proper nature channel.

[@lotterhand]

Thank you very much!

[@gfb_wildlife_photography646]

What an amazing capture Mark!! Now you just need to get footage of a rattlesnake eating one of those squirrels or mice.

[@lotterhand]

Thanks George! I am hope one the cams do capture rattlesnake predation at some point!

[@bblauter]

this was a really great short video, I shocked it does not have more views

[@lotterhand]

Thank you! And I appreciate the vote of confidence.

[@cribbsprojects]

Great story, Mark. Nice summary.

[@lotterhand]

Thank you kindly!

[@ShooprDoopr]

So COOL! OK you've inspired me to set up some cams around our property in the Sonoran Desert. We've seen coachwhips and Crotalus atrox about.. hopefully we'll see some cerastes soon.

[@lotterhand]

I highly recommend you do! I have watched trail cam videos out of AZ that include several species of snakes, including rattlesnakes. In fact, I am visiting the Tucson area in August and leaving a trail cam behind. A good friend of mine who lives in Tucson will be the cam's caretaker of sorts and transports it back east when he visits.

[@naturewithgabe]

Another epic capture! Great stuff mark!

[@lotterhand]

Thank you!!

[@barbarathorndyke8417]

Always love your videos. Your channel is full of rare content featuring reptiles in the Northeast/New England and that's very hard to find. Will you be uploading any new hognose videos from the Cape? :) I found that one to be particularly fun to watch

[@lotterhand]

Thanks as always for your continued support! I did find hognose back in June at my western MA location, but didn't have a chance to visit the Cape this year. I am currently working on a smooth green snake docu, but that will take a couple of years. In the meantime my trail cams are hard at work gathering more footage at timber sites. Recently one of the cams filmed a rattlesnake drinking rainwater during a heavy thunderstorm. Anyway this and other footage will be compiled into a more comprehensive video/s this fall. Stay tuned!

[@NaturesFairy]

WOW Mark,, you could make videos for National Geographic!! This was AMAZING!

[@lotterhand]

Thank you! If my content was on NG, I would lose my quiet starving artist persona lol. Seriously, thanks for the encouragement!

[@NaturesFairy]

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[@mrsNetty34]

Who will win the battle?

[@lotterhand]

It was a draw! Both animals retreated.

[@NewEnglandReptile]

Awesome stuff as always!

[@lotterhand]

Thank you!!!!!

[@flat6fever680]

Great stuff! Liked and subscribed.

[@lotterhand]

Thank you! I appreciate your support!

[@MaineWoodsbooger]

fantastic footage, Mark!

[@lotterhand]

Glad you think so!

[@williamfleet2192]

Thanks Mark , great footage .

[@lotterhand]

Glad you enjoyed it!

[@noahmarcus8211]

Awesome footage, I could watch them for hours!

[@lotterhand]

You and me both!

[@andrewjohnson5188]

Excellent video ! Good job.

[@lotterhand]

Thank you!

[@jimthompson3030]

wonderful video i live in central Pa. a few coppers but plenty of rattlers. coppers along Juniata river... rattlers in mountainous woods also timber rattlers..

[@lotterhand]

Thank you! PA certainly healthy numbers of timber rattlesnakes, certainly more than NY and New England. All those folded mountainous ridges surrounded by forests and fields create ideal snake denning areas and prey availability respectively.

[@TheBerylknight]

I've seen Bobcats show "predatory intentions" before, and this ain't it.

[@lotterhand]

I agree.

[@trailcamerasinnewengland0112]

Amazing footage never seen a rattle snake in the wild, awesome captures with the bobcat at the snake den.

[@lotterhand]

Thanks! Timber rattlesnakes are such an iconic American animal that I never tire of encountering and I hoping in 2023 my trail cams will capture more interactions between them and other wildlife!

[@garrettevans2308]

Fantastic!!

[@Greenpeas58]

Great job Mark.

[@lotterhand]

Thank you Brian!

[@robinvann6663]

Super Cool Footage...

[@lotterhand]

Thank you very much!

[@Red_Dead_Ed]

You. Need. Your. Own. Series. On. The. Discovery. Channel.

[@lotterhand]

I am humbled Eddie, thank you.

[@BonhommeVert.Br.St-Jean]

Insufferable narration. Like we can't see by ourselves that the view has changed and we can see better what's happening. That really needed to be said.

[@jimthompson3030]

I saw a crow pick up a 18 inch rattlers 5 years ago that was alive and angry!!! also a rattler killed on rt. 53 with 21 rattles and a button 6 ft. long snake 2 and a half in. wide..evil looking.... in Pa. i think are smaller beautiful lovely eastern diamond backs with new skin are more beautiful than any wife but just as deadly.TRUE TRUE TRUE!!!!!!

[@lotterhand]

I am impressed that you witnessed a crow prey on a rattlesnake! My goal with the trail cams is to record predation on timber rattlesnakes, a topic less explored regarding their life history. I posted two trail cam videos this winter of weasel predation on hibernating rattlesnakes at a nearby den site to this one. A learned behavior I had no idea existed! I suspect at some point my trail cams will record red-tail hawk predation, especially at birthing rookeries, but I guess now that may include crows/ravens. Thanks for sharing. Here is one of the weasel predations kzbin.info/www/bejne/p4CkpJubqqaCsK8