Field notes, v1305
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Greene, H. 1983 25 June (continued) Far enough we couldn't find it so fast. When Michael arrived he almost immediately saw it coiled in front of the tree where it had been crawling. We had walked within inches of it without seeing or arousing it! Next we took numerous photos, and only response of the snake was to turn its head slightly in our direction and tongue flick fast once or twice - no long slow flicks. Snake was the prettiest of the three adults I've seen thus far - apparently freshly shed. Very cryptic, either stretched out or coiled. After lunch, Nancy Pozze, student from U. Wisconsin, brought in a Rana warscewitschii that she found at #600 on Camino Experimental Sur. It had swallowed about the tail of a Nopops humilis which when regurgitated seems OK. Nopops wt. 0.81g, SV 29mm, HW 5.5 mm, Tail 33 mm, Rana wt. 12.73 g, SV 56mm, HW 19.5mm. She also saw an adult ♂ Felis concolor on the Blajo in the new property this morning. 25 June Up ≈0530h and out to check the little Lachesis on the Camino Experimental. As I returned up steps behind the Bath House Craig and Mo told me to slow down, the big Lachesis was crawling up to the sidewalk there. They heard it more it's anterior then saw it. We watched it of