I've been camping, hiking and driving around the NJ Pine Barrens for over 20 years. Intellectually, I know there are Timber Rattlesnakes in the Pines. But this is the first live one I've ever seen. Campers the next site over discovered it about their tent. The light wasn't very good but I managed to grab these shots before it got relocated to a field about 200 yards away:
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