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Heare, H.
1990
October 1
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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