Field notes, v1306
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Greene, H. 1989 August 15 of State Line Rd on Aug 80, by 1900hr and we walked (continued) around W of the Hwy for approx 1 hour. The site is very reminiscent of the Kansas Flint Hills locality where I first saw Sistrurus in 1963 - gently rolling grassy hills, cut by a shallow winding dry gully w/ small rock outcrops and many volcanic rocks over the landscape. Many rocks are well-embedded, but some are flat and liftable. In the past, they've seen C. atrox, C. scutulatus, Sonora, Euneces obsolitus, Holbrookia maculata, Cnemidophorus uniparens here, and there is a report of Lampropeltis triangulum. There are Nectoma nests in the rock outcrop, and as Tony looked into the first one he saw an active Elgaria leizgi that escaped into the tangle of sticks! Only other keep was an adult Crotaphytus collaris I found sleeping under a small flat rock. We got 7 snakes road hunting, 2 Crotalus scutulatus, 2 C. atrox, 1 Tantilla nigriceps, 1 Lampropeltis getulus, and 1 Micrurus emygdophis - between approx 2000-2230 hr. We had driven out to Bernardino, made two passes between there and Rucker Canyon Rd., gone back up to SWRS, and then out the Portal Rd approx 3 miles before returning to Barney's home. August 16 at 1130hr I caught an adult Masticophis bilineatus on Cave Creek Rd, at a place where there is open grassy "parkland" on one side and oak woodland.