Field notes, v1307
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Greene, H. 1990 August 20 (Continued) She moved her head but didn't rattle as I approached. At 0930 hr C. molossus #6 is ~150 m E or ENE up boulder slope from the mining road, thus >100 m from yesterday and ~75 m from the first corner telephone pole on the rock pile nearest the road. He was uncoiling in a gravel patch between an acacia and an agave as I approached. At 0956 hr C. molossus #3 is ~2m S (toward road) from yesterday's fallen limb, frozen stretched out. Signal seemed to move as I approached. At 1020hr C. molossus #1 is ~150 m to the NE of the corner telephone pole, thus >100 m west of yesterday and ~4m uphill from a white hankie tied to an acacia (from last year?). Snake was frozen as if moving into a coil, head tilted up in an anterior body loop, tail extended behind. At 1620hr #1 is in a tight flat coil w/tail hidden, neck and head in an S-coil facing bare area next to rock from underneath a low plant, ~12 m west of this ATM in line w/ the corner telephone pole. I almost stepped on him - had stepped on left side, then up on a boulder from which I saw him. At 1640 hr C. molossus #3 is on the S. side of the road, ~20m downslope and S. of yesterday's site on the N. side of the road. Snake is in an open flat compact coil w/ head facing a downed limb. At ~1730hr