Field notes, v1308
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Greene, H. 1992 September 15 saw a very small blacktail recently in grass (continued) near a coral. They knew the Wrights at Cornell U., and said Albert's lectures were totally disorganized, that he constantly inserted "Now,..." in his sentences. September 16 at 0858h in bright sun a large Scelopenda heros moved rapidly across Paradise Rd. in front of me in our study area. At 0920h I found Crotalus molossus # 9 in a tight coil in the shade of a 3m shrub, on the E. flood terrace of the Forest Service boundary canyon, just below where the 3 canyon drainages meet, ~200-300m N of the road. at 0933h I spotted C. molossus #11 crawling slowly and tongue-flicking, ~4m SW of yesterday's site. From 5/0:10-1035h I searched both sides of Junestone Ridge but could get no signal for C. molossus #8. At 1055h I localized the signal of C. molossus #14 to a hole w/ Neotoma nest in the main gray limestone outcrop near its W. end, perpendicular to and ~150-20am N of the road. At 1132h I found C. molossus #12 in a resty coil under a flat above the ground Opuntia pad - very hard to see - at the base of an acacia, at the base and W. end of the red rocks ridge & ~ perpendicular to the main road bend. In mid afternoon Sarah Schmidt and I went to upper East Whitetail Canyon to check out some old mine shafts for bats - she entered two while I puttered outside. Upper slopes cloaked in dark green, but still lots of ocotillo and century plants - and on the ground the sublimely beautiful