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The northern copperhead found in Rappahannock County has hourglass patterns of dark or reddish brown on a background of light brown to reddish gray. The head is usually a coppery color and the snake has dark spots along the sides of the belly. The young, born alive from mid-August to early October, look like adults but with brighter colors and a sulphur-yellow tip on the tail.
Copperheads are generally eight to 48 inches long. They’re t >und almost everywhere rodents are found—barns, lumber piles, sawdust piles, berry thickets, rock ledges, edges of fields and haystacks. Some hibernate in the mountains as does the tim ser rattler.
The timber rattlesnake is found only in mountainous portions of the state. It has two color phases: the black phase where the head and posterior one-third of the body are black with incomplete chevrons and black saddles almost obscured and the yellow phase where the head has little black pigment with black or brown saddles and chevrons evident against a yellow background. The tail is black in both phases.
The young, born alive in August and September, are patterned like the yellow phase but less brightly colored. Timber rattlers grow from 10 to 60 inches long and hibernate in rock outcroppings in winter. In summer, the snakes scatter to such areas as second-growth clearings, berry patches and orchards.
Snake Bite
The most important thing to remember if bitten by a poisonous snake is to stay calm. Increased activity will only speed the spread ot poison through the body, according to Dr. Werner Krebser of the Rappahannock Medical Clinic.
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