Corona Barb,
It might have been someone's escaped pet; I don't know. Last year we had a green parakeet hang around our bird feeder for a few days and a few years ago a neighbor's chicken jumped over a few fences and ended up in my yard!
I didn't see any rattle at the tail, but I didn't specifically look for one. I suppose it could have been a baby rattle snake that hadn't grown any rattles yet. I don't know how realistic rattle snakes are portrayed in the movies, but they're always coiled up and in a strike pose in every Western I've seen. The yellow and white snake in my yard was just lying still and straight, not coiled up at all. I think it was young because it looked less than a foot long.
If I see it again I'll try to get a picture, but this is the first time in 20 years here that I've seen a snake of any kind in my yard!
Thanks,
Irv
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