{"id":145412,"date":"2025-09-10T01:25:06","date_gmt":"2025-09-10T01:25:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/145412\/"},"modified":"2025-09-10T01:25:06","modified_gmt":"2025-09-10T01:25:06","slug":"rare-grand-isle-county-timber-rattlesnake-sighting-prompts-excitement","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/145412\/","title":{"rendered":"Rare Grand Isle County timber rattlesnake sighting prompts excitement"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"text | text-start article-text\">SALISBURY, Vt. (WCAX) &#8211; A rare sighting of a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wcax.com\/2021\/08\/03\/wildlife-watch-timber-rattlesnake\/\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.wcax.com\/2021\/08\/03\/wildlife-watch-timber-rattlesnake\/\">timber rattlesnake<\/a> in Grand Isle County is prompting excitement.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | text-start article-text\">The species, which was previously thought to be limited to western Rutland County, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.vtherpatlas.org\/2025\/08\/06\/interesting-reports-survey-work\/\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.vtherpatlas.org\/2025\/08\/06\/interesting-reports-survey-work\/\">was photographed &#8212; and later captured by Fish and Wildlife &#8212; earlier this summer.<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">In this week\u2019s Wildlife Watch, Ike Bendavid spoke with reptile expert Jim Andrews about what the sighting of the venomous snake might mean.<\/p>\n<p class=\"copyright |\">Copyright 2025 WCAX. All rights reserved.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"SALISBURY, Vt. (WCAX) &#8211; A rare sighting of a timber rattlesnake in Grand Isle County is prompting excitement.&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":145413,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[51],"tags":[79,201],"class_list":{"0":"post-145412","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-wildlife","8":"tag-science","9":"tag-wildlife"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/145412","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=145412"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/145412\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/145413"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=145412"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=145412"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=145412"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}