Greene, A. 1998 July 30 small lynx Rufus dashes across the (cortina) road in front of us. July 31 0800-0830h we watch CM729 in dappled sun coiled in sparse grass in front of Delta and facing it, where 3 babies are coiled. As I approach a baby uncoils slowly and scats back into Delta. We take photos from all angles, and finally a baby out in front of the F crawls over her; she flinches and partly uncoils toward the entrance. The baby crawls slowly in and she re-coils to her previous position. The skin of the babies is duller colored today (yesterday they were yellow and reddish brown fresh looking) but their eyes are not yet blue. We decide that only 2 babies have been seen today, and I am not totally sure we saw 3 yesterday. At 0950 CM279 is out of sight at her gestation site, at 1100 CM317 is in some crack, in shade, in an open coil with her paw part out of the entrance - her posterior is still evidently fat, and we can't see any babies. After dinner Marcio and I road hunt the Sistums site. ~10 mi SW of State line at dusk we seem to be driving in to a black wall of furious cloudburst and lightning,