… continued from Part 1 & Part 2.
We were discussing which other rattlesnakes we could possibly see on a hot, dry evening, and no sooner did the words “there’s no way we’ll see a tiger tonight” leave my mouth did we see a Tiger Rattlesnake, Crotalus tigris. Whoa! Of course I took way too many pictures.




Then we saw an angry young Western Diamondback Rattlesnake, Crotalus atrox.

A big tarantula out looking for a mate or meal:

… and then another Black-Tailed Rattlesnake, Crotalus molossus.



We were pretty satisfied with this and called it a night after activity seemed to tail off. In the morning we got a couple shots of one of my favorite Arizona lizards on the way out, Yarrow’s Spiny Lizard, Sceloporus jarrovi.




The last picture for this trip was a very large moth we found doing its best lichen impression.

Tags: black-tailed rattlesnake, Blacktail, Crotalus tigris, Diamondback Rattlesnake, jarovi, sceloporus jarrovvi, tiger rattlesnake