Field notes, v1307
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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