8/6- On an afternoon hike into the Chiricahuas I was led to my lifelist Blacktail by my brother. They had left the snake sleeping from the morning, but I approached too close with my cheap camera and sent it buzzing under a rock in a manner of seconds...oops. Still got a good look and Wayne ahs a nice picture of it on his report. Also saw a really pretty Horned Lizard (see wayne's report again) that 11-year old Logan spotted after a couple people had walked by it.

8/7- Road cruising produced a Diamondback, a couple of Mojaves and an encounter with the Border Patrol. As I was checking out a Mojave on the road (DOR unfortunately) I had made a turn around, stopped and looked and turned around again. All this erratic driving captured the attention of the Border Patrol guy parked clandestinely in the ditch so he pulled me over and asked questions. I think he may have encoutered a herper or two before because he had that look in his eyes ("oh one of these snake guys"). Anyway he became convinced taht I wasn't out there to pick up a border crossing illegal so he sent me on my way. I also saw a live checkered garter and DOR Glossy Snake.

8/6-Spotted a modest sized adult Black-Tailed Rattlesnake under a rock 3 minutes into a hiking trail in the mountains. Also saw several Yarrow's Spiny Lizards. The snake was still basking under the rock when we returned from our hike at 10:45AM. We brought Keith out that afternoon and the snake was still there. He learned that its hard to get a good snake picture with a disposable camera. As he leaned to get up close to the snake eye to eye it zipped under a rock and rattled its tail in retreat. We saw a cool mountain short horned lizard on our hike. It did let me lay down for some eye to eye shots with a point and click digital. The snakes were on the move that night. I spotted a Mojave and a Western Diamondback from the car and missed seeing a Western Diamondback that moved across the road swiftly while I was looking for a road sign. Also saw a DOR Mojave.

8/7--Didn't do much herping in the day because Rachel wanted to see Bisbee. We drove there and at one point watched the temp drop 30 degrees in 15 miles. Decided to road cruise the mountains at evening and early night but the rains had made things very cool and nothing was stirring. Cruised the flats for half an hour as a consolation and saw two juvie Mojaves back to back at 8:30 and 8:33PM.