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Greene, H.
1990
August 17 ~ 20 am above ground at the side of the road,
(continued) west side of the arroyo that crosses the road at
the picnic area turnout. His head was horizontal
on the edge of outer coil of body, and he made
no response to our approach. We had dinner
(Billie Hardy's Chile Relleno - hot!) w/ Aulder Hayes,
a former National Park Service archaeologist who
has been in this area for decades. We told us that
the pullout we use to park where our blacktails
are is called Duffener Camp; that the ridge
that runs ~ W-E and N of Silver Creek, upon
which the rattlers hibernate, is called
Limestone Mountain, from East Turkey Creek to
its terminus near Portal - and the specific
ridge was called Grand Royal Ridge for a
while because of a mine up there; and that
there's an adobe ruin near there called
Albert Firth for the guy who lived in it in
the 1880's and 1890's. Dave and I road hunted
to Bernardino and made two passes over the
massasauga site - saw a Micrurus between
their house and Portal, a neonate C. scutulata,
and a yearling Pituophis (not saved - H&R
at 2022 hr, 22.9 mi SW State Line Rd. on U.S. 80).
At 2159 hr we drove by and could see C. mokeses
~ #3 in the same tree crotch.
August 18 At 0847 hr, C. undosus ~ #3 has crossed the
South