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| no partners | | My hiking partner was supposed to accompany me today but canceled, so I got a late start. I combed Sabino Canyon looking for critters and found that critter activity there took a nose dive. Peak critter activity is definitely from June to August. On this trip I saw one skunk, one coyote, one deer, a few toads, one tarantula, and two snakes (a d-back and AZ black). This might seem like a lot of animals to some, but I'm used to seeing more in this canyon. It was a slow night for wildlife viewing.
I saw the d-back resting on the road near the 3-mile marker and saw the AZ black rattler about 5 ft from it on the side of the road. After I got done photographing them, a biker told me that they were intertwined and that she scared them when she rode past them and they separated. I emailed a herping experiment that I know (contrary to some, I'm not an expert), and he stated that that behavior was not documented.
He also stated that this was out of the AZ black's range, as they are supposed to be above 4,000ft. I thought seeing the AZ black was odd, as I thought they'd be higher up. Now, I have to be more cautious when I'm there because I used to see a black snake and just grab it because I would think that it was a coachwhip or a kingsnake. Now that I know AZ blacks come down that low, I can't be that reckless. Kingsnakes look a lot like AZ blacks at night using a cheap flashlight. |
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