Did you know Ontario has Rattlers in the wild

[Scales Zoo]

We live in southwest Saskatchewan, home of the prairie rattler, croatalus viridis viridis. The largest densites and hibernacula are 12 km from our front door. They began emergence on April 19 this year, and were out thick on mothers day.
We hope to travel to Ontario again to search for the Massassaugas. I used to look for them at Collingwood, when I lived out there. And on the Niagara escarpment west of Mississauga. Seemed like logical places to look, but never found any. They were either not there to begin with, or had dispersed for the season.
We have travelled to manitoba to see the garter snakes at Narcisse, but we arrived a little late in the season to see them at the peak of activity.
If anyone would be interested in exchanging photos of our finds this season, email Ryan@scaleszoo.com. We are collecting data on all the snake species, so hognose, fox snakes and all others are welcome.

lol, I guess that did come out sounding like a crot when I said eastern, since the eastern Massasauga opened the thread I didn't think to clarify. C.ademanteus I don't think is reported north of South Carolina. By saying that easterns are found that far north I meant that the Eastern Massasauga rattlesnake has been found in areas of Southern ontario but I was under the impression that was the extreme northern limit of it's natural range.

[Jeremy]

Hey Rev,
Again, my bad. Your riught, it made perfect sense but I didnt think of Sisturus when I wrote my first post.

As for EDBs, they range historicly about a third of the way up NC from SC, on the coast but now have a greatly reduced range due to all of the usual poblems (mostly habitat destruction). They acn still be found in some areas of the state but it isnt easy from what I ahve heard.

Welp, sorry for the cunfusion.

All the best,
J

[aaron]

actually there are a few small populations of massasauga rattlers near the windsor ontario area(Ojibway nature center). If you go to www.ojibway.ca you should be able to find more info on locations in ontario

aaron