Field notes, v1308
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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