Field notes, v1307
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Freese, H 1990 August 21 (continued) which I palpated a partially digested Cnemidophorus mbox. Wade brought me an adult C. inornatus from SWRS to examine: ?, empty stomach, 872 + 63 mm, 40g, 6 segments (parallel and incomplete. Forgot to sverlim that yesterday as I drove up to the snake sight site in the AM there was a big pile of reddish feces w/apple chunks in it, courtesy of Ursus americanus, on the pared road between the Hankys' house and dirt turnoff to Paradise - then another, also mid-road, x 1/2 mile toward Paradise which I photographed. This prompted Diane and I to ask: Why did the bear shit in the road? Cause he couldn't make it to the other side! August 22 Joined up with Alden Hayes and two of his brothers to see the Albert Fink site - it's an adobe ruin x400m or less upstream from the duffner pullout, on the first terrace - just one corner left now, but you can still make out the adobe brick and mortar lines. At 0850h we found C. inornatus #3 in a compact coil in a prickly pear on the NE bank of the side branch of Silver Creek that flows under the road at the Def/ferry place; his tail was invisible, he'd up on an outer coil. At 0910h as I approached #3 for photos he raised into a somewhat elevated S-coil (still in among the Opuntia pads), rattled for x2 Secs,