Field notes, v1308
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there, ft. 1992 August 21 Kierl's Ranch ~18:30 hr we saw two herds of (continued) Antilocapra south of Hwy 80, each a group of females accompanied by a big male. August 22 at 0845 hr I found C. molossus ♀ #17 50m W on the same rock retaining wall, by a culvert pipe 2m below (S. of) the road. Note an old shed skin nearby. Today is overcast and humid. At 0910hr C. molossus ♂ #3 rattles and assumes a high coil at me from <2 m away on the opposite side of a bush - he is out crawling ~75 m NNW of yesterday's site and ~10m W of the mine road, due W. of Pole 1. At 0934hr I localized C. molossus ♀ #12's spiral to 2m above and S. of her previous long-term caching site. At 0951hr C. molossus ♂#9 is in a hunky coil in the open, on the edge of a ravine on S. side of Silver Creek, 30 m E. of yesterday. At 1021 hr C. molossus ♀ #16 is in a small steep gully below it between the right and center "dolphin heads" ~150m N of the road and ≤50m from her last site, in a resting coil tucked under a boulder. At 1045 hr I saw C. molossus ♂#13 crawling into a packrat nest under an Opuntia ~75 m NNW of the road on the E. edge of a ravine that ends near the W. edge of the main limestone ledge system - and he put his head out as if investigating me as I approach, which causes me to ponder if he's not on the trail of a ♀. At