I have a hunting camp in Weedville PA - just outside of St.Mary's PA -

They strip mined the mountain that my camp is on years ago and all the snake left town. Over the last couple of years though they have been comming back and we have seen alot of rattlers and black snacks around. Mostly up on top of the mountain where it is really rocky - lost of places for them to hide and sun themselves.

I have always loved catching snakes and have had a few for pets over the years - ball pythons, red tails boas, stuff like that.

There are not many poisonous species where I live in WNY. Once in awhile you'll hear of someone running across a Rattler but not too often. Here is a question I have though. A couple of the locals near my hunting camp said that the black snakes are good to have arount they keep the mice in check but, they also said that they have been know to cross breed with the rattlers and that there is the possability of comming across a venomous black snake. Have you every heard of this? I wasn't sure if it was even possible to cross the two species in the wild -