Image from the Biodiversity Heritage Library.
Contributed by Museum of Vertebrate Zoology, University of California, Berkeley.
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July 6 (continued) at 1015h I spotted a big ♂ Pseustes poecilonotus (800g, 1379+537mm) lying in grass in a patch of dappled sun. It was immobile and easily mistaken for a branch. Didn't move until I touched it, then instantly inflated most of the body, gaped widely, and bit my forearm - and wouldn't release easily! Some odor - not strong or especially disagreeable - was evident by the time I bagged it.
Several Iguana and Rhinoclemys visible from the bridge at noon. Thunderstorms upslope and the afternoon and sporadic rain in the evening, went to Cartavana Swamp twice and out CES to 300m - scattered frogs calling. At ~2040h David DeSanti (formerly Point Reyes Bird Observatory) encountered a ~1m Bothrops asper crawling on the sidewalk at the River Station. It struck