Walking one morning on the Kewash trail, a lovely long rail-trail conversion about an hour south of our house, I encountered this approximately meter-long snake. I always give snakes cautious distance, especially after an incident as a kid in which I discovered that if you hold too far behind the head, a snake can actually bend around and bite you on the finger you're holding it with. This one particularly warned me off, however, by popping up the tip of its tail and buzzing: if indeed it was a Timber Rattlesnake, then this was my first actual poisonous snake encounter in the wild.
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