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Heane, H.
1992
October 11 C. molossus #11 had his coil in sun, shade 25.5 C,
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sun 44.1 C, head not visible. From 1130-1400h Dave Hardy, Mike Jipske, and I hiked to the upper east side of Forest Service boundary canyon to locate & photograph C. molossus #9 in a hunting coil perpendicular to a small steep ravine, then moved around the upper canyon to find C. molossus #15 barely visible under a small boulder on the east facing west rim - an exhilarating hike! At 1415h C. molossus #11 was barely visible deep in the shade of his cave, shade 31.7 C, sun 40.2 C. The site is amazingly dry compared to my last visit when everything seem lush and in full flowers. Now the yellow flowers are pale, like dry paper, and my boots crunch rather than swish as we walk through vegetation. It is very dusty, and the dust is as fine as tale. After a late lunch at the store, I talked w/ Helen Snyder who lives here and studies goshawks. She said on August 1 Ray Mendez picked up a big G Elaphe triaspis that she saw a DOR E. triaspis that contained a Peromyscus and that Barry Tomberlin knows about this, and that she found a Lampropeltis pyromelana in a can containing a mouse nest in her outhouse. At 1545h C. molossus #11's head was extended out from the inner cave to the