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Greene, H.
1993
August 3 (continued)
♂ #19 at the N. edge of Silver Creek at the back of
the pullout, intending to give him sometime to
"get his bearings" before encountering the road.
At 0805hr I released C. molossus ♂ #18 at
his exact capture site - he disappeared quietly
and leisurely down a hole in the rat nest. At
0815hr I localized the signal of C. molossus
♀ #12 to the base of a huge juniper on the S bank
(actually 1st fence) of Silver Creek, ~50m W of
the draw in which she was recently located. At
0820hr I checked the site where C. molossus
♂♂ 3 & 3A were yesterday but saw no blacktails.
At 0830hr I spotted C. molossus ♂ #3 crawling
E in the edge of the open area above the N bank
of Silver Creek, ~50m E and above yesterday's
site. He was crawling X straight at about
1m/45 seconds, tongue flicking, evidently unaware
of me ~4m away. Next I hiked up to C.
Molossus ♀ #15 taking ~30 minutes by way
of the ridge (instead of up the canyon bottom). At
0940hr I could see an edge of her coil protruding
from behind a corner in the same hole as last
time, ~30cm from the entrance. At 1020hr I
localized C. molossus ♂ #11 to an area of
dense brush on a fence above the N bank of
Silver Creek & about 50m SW of yesterday's
site (he is ~55W of the gravid ♀ #15). I