Field notes, v1307
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Greene, H. 1990 August 15 and neck in S-coil in center. She was ≈2 m N of a (continued) juniper and ≈10 m E. of the agave plant by which we released her yesterday. Only reaction to my close approach for photographs was a slight head jerk. We released ♂ #6 at the agave where he was found day beforeyester- day. At 1120h we found ♂ #3 under a 1 m tall acacia on the edge of an arroyo, ≈100 m [illegible] ESE of the agave where Dave last located him and the other two blacktails. He clicked a brief burst or two of rattles as I slugged w/in a meter - seemed to be stretched out and crawling, and as I looked down he crawled ≈1 m and froze. All this during a light sprinkle on a cool morning. We had a low fire, and while inflating it I checked ♂ #5 ≈1145 h and found he had coiled where last seen. After lunch we went to Rodeo for gas and toured the Chiricahua Gallery. Scattered showers into the afternoon and evening. Dave and I road hunted to Bezzardino, making two passes over the massasauger site - saw only an H&K Thamnophis marcianus on Hwy 80 and numerous foods. August 16 Early morning sunny, partly cloudy. We found a ♂ Pituophis melanoleucus at 0952 h, 2.2 mi W. of Portal Rd on Paradise Rd. At 1008 h we radiolocated Crotalus molossus ♂ #3 in same spot as yesterday, coiled in some sun - he uncoiled w/out rattling at our approach and retreated to same place as yesterday. At 1016 h