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Freese, h.
1990
August 27 (continued) under the tree (shrub), frozen w/ head extended out of coil as if starting to crawl. Road hunted w/ them to Bernardino, back and forth to Rucker Canyon.
Rel - saw 1 DOR Pitophis, 2 DOR C. sclutales,
an HOK C. atrax, and caught 1 small C. sclutalae
and 1 Rhinothilus Recortei. One other car was
definitely road hunting at the massasauga site, the
first since I arrived this time: a pickup (cf.
Datsun), gold w/ white camper shell, Arizona
License 7475 NS.
August 23 Packed up and cleared up the house prior to leaving for
Berkeley. At 0920hr an adult (>1m, ??) Crotalus
atrox was crossing Cane Creek Rd. just south of
the big turn coming out of Portal, in full sun. @
1150hr C. molossus #3 is ~10m WSW of yesterday
under a bush, almost hidden in grass and
stretched out, just N. of the north bank of the
main Silver Creek drainage and S. of Dufferer
fallout. At 1205hr C. molossus #5 is just
E. of the mining road and due W. of the
corner telephone pole, ~6m down the slope
from that road and on a line between
yesterday's site (woodrat nest) and the corner
pole; in a flat compact coil w/ head in
center in an S-coil. As I left at 1455hr, ~3mi
E. of Portal on Portal Rd., an adult Masticophis
bilineatus started out on the road from scrub