Field notes, v1308
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Greene, H. 1992 August 19 (continued) perfectly Joe Marshall's definition of encircling. The others returned to Tucson and Sarah and I returned to Portal around the south end of the Huachucaas, stopping for photos at Montezuma Pass (Coronado National Monument) - especially of the Sienna Madre to the southwest. As we drove through Douglas there was a black wall of storms to the east over the Peloncillos, and we hit the edge of it for a little rain. August 20 Portal, Chinicuas Mtns., Cochise Co., Arizona Bright sunny morning w/ a slight breeze. My right heel ligament is painful to the point I limp - a condition present since before the trips, made worse yesterday by sprinting to move a Tenapere off Hwy 80. So I only check 4 blacktails. First went w/ Sarah Schmidt to see her bat diet study site in a mine shaft on Dick & Fran Zweifel's place in Paradise. at 1015h I could see C. molossus ♂3 and ♀17 in adjacent crevices at the base of the upper rock retaining wall, ~3m W. of where they've been. At 1030h C. molossus ♀12 is in a loose coil w/ her posterior ¼ closest to the entrance, all in shade, same site where she has been since at least August 8. At 1047h I spotted C. molossus ♂9 in a resty coil in the shade of a juniper, 20m S. of Silver Creek ESE of Pole 1 and 300-400m E. of my last sighting of him - probably a level w/ mating site.