We put ourselves low to the ground all the time.
Stepping over and through.
Coming up or down a bank or ditch.
Reaching down for anything.
Again, I have seen them in palmettos several times. Catching birds would be my guess?
Walked up on one in a palmetto one day decades ago. He was 3’ off the ground and looking right at me.
Gut check, for sure.
I still think the threat is way overblown but I do not want to be a statistic.
By snake or drunk driver.
When they`re up there, they be ambushing birds and squirrels, and in the case of copperheads, they`re mostly after July flies (cicadas). Canebrake rattlers are more apt to climb than a diamondback, at least in my experience.