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Field notes and photography by Bryan D. Hughes
Sep
18th
2009

Hot & Dry in the South East, Part 3

… 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.

Crotalus tigris
Crotalus tigris
Tiger Rattlesnake
Tiger Rattlesnake
Crotalus tigris
Crotalus tigris
Crotalus tigris
Crotalus tigris

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

Crotalus atrox
Crotalus atrox

A big tarantula out looking for a mate or meal:

tarantula
tarantula

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

Crotalus molossus
Crotalus molossus
Black-Tailed Rattlesnake
Black-Tailed Rattlesnake
Crotalus molossus
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.

Sceloporus jarrovvi
Sceloporus jarrovvi
Yarrow's Spiny Lizard
Yarrow's Spiny Lizard
Sceloporus jarrovvi
Sceloporus jarrovvi
Yarrow's Spiny Lizard
Yarrow's Spiny Lizard

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

moth
moth

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