re: Some snakes killed in the pine belt this last week

One Hot summer day while cruising timber near St. Joe, I stopped to take a compass shot. Right next to me to my right about 3 ft was a huge rattler that made an Ess curve up a swelled butted tree. His head was about waist high and he was looking up the tree like he had hit a squirrel and was waiting for it to fall. Never paid attention to me so I eased away from him and left him alone. Different individuals act differently even in snakes but I never saw an aggressive rattler in 45 plus years in the woods hunting or working.