Field notes, v1307
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Heare, H. 1990 October 1 (continued) he was coiled on the 29th. At 1450h I found ♂ #3 ~2m uphill from where I stumbled into him yesterday, under a small bush beside an open patch. He was in a tight coil, tail invisible, head in- took photos. From ~1600-1730h I cruised the Portal Rd. and checked out the site where Diane Wagner saw the Sistrurus. Today Kevin Concash helped me of finding a seemingly neotate (side B. Torberlin) Crotalus molossus on Sept. 29th, on the road in South Fork Canyon. Barney Torberlin gave me a passive regurgitated by a Masticophis bilineatus he caught at a lizard study site in New Mexico. Wade Sherbrooke gave me a neonate DOR Lampropeltis getula a student at SWRS found with a mammal hanging out of it. Made one trip from Portal to Hwy 80 and back w/ Lee Fitzgerald (UNM) and Charlie Painter (NMGF), both visiting Barney Torberlin - saw only several juvenile Scaphiopus multiplicata. Sky partly cloudy, lots of stars. 61°F at noon on the Hardy's porch. October 2 55°F on the Hardy's porch at 0620h, partly cloudy with lots of open sky. At 017h I found ♀ Crotalus molossus #5 w/in a few cm of yesterday's site. She is up under a bush, her head has pinned for ~10cm along her neck and facing down her outstretched body to the east - already catching a little sun sifted through the shrub branches. I touched her gently w/ the