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		<title>Neonate Rock Rattlesnakes</title>
		<description><![CDATA[We started out earlier than we should have, with the weather what it was &#8230; more for logistics than activity. It&#8217;s always better to be early than late, and we were definitely early. By the time we got our stuff together and climbed to the place where all the snakes would be, the fog and [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://fieldherper.com/2013/02/13/neonate-rock-rattlesnakes/</link>
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		<title>Eddy County Diamondback</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Here&#8217;s another diamondback from Eddy county &#8211; common of course but there are obvious physical differences between them and those that I find around Phoenix. They tend to be darker, higher contrast, and larger. Ya, a very common snake, but I&#8217;m happy to see every one that I do and will always photograph them, to [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://fieldherper.com/2013/02/09/eddy-county-diamondback/</link>
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		<title>Maricopa County Sidewinders</title>
		<description><![CDATA[A couple more, of many found in the last few years. They all look so similar &#8211; I wouldn&#8217;t even know if I saw the same one twice. Crotalus cerastes cercobombus Sonoran sidewinder]]></description>
		<link>http://fieldherper.com/2013/01/22/maricopa-county-sidewinders/</link>
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		<title>Made in the Shade</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Every July, when the desert is at it&#8217;s hottest, driest, most brutal time, temperatures don&#8217;t really ever drop out of the 90s in rocky washes around Phoenix. This is a great time to visit a couple of tortoises that use the same cut out in a wash to keep in the shade. There are probably [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://fieldherper.com/2013/01/18/made-in-the-shade/</link>
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		<title>Diamondback in a Tree</title>
		<description><![CDATA[This is one of many seen last summer &#8230; many seen that night actually. Way back in a hard-to-get-to wash at about 2am, we watched this diamondback on the crawl head up into the low branches of a tree, and sit. I&#8217;m not sure if this was in response to our being there, but either [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://fieldherper.com/2013/01/16/diamondback-in-a-tree/</link>
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		<title>Yavapai County in a Seldom Herped Range</title>
		<description><![CDATA[No snakes today, though I find plenty in this area. There are some places where you end up going because you like just being there, regardless of it being a &#8216;good&#8217; or &#8216;bad&#8217; spot. This one is fortunately a good one, and has a lot of surprises for me. AZ Black Rattlesnakes and Mojave Rattlesnakes [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://fieldherper.com/2012/12/17/yavapai-county-in-a-seldom-herped-range/</link>
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		<title>A Ridge-Noses&#8217; Nose</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Here&#8217;s another willardi from 2011, and to be honest I don&#8217;t remember anything about this one. I was fortunate that year and saw a bunch of them, and now I&#8217;m all mixed up. SO, with that admission: here&#8217;s a good example of that cool ridge that sets these guys apart from other US rattlesnakes. When [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://fieldherper.com/2012/12/14/a-ridge-noses-nose/</link>
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		<title>Wind Loving Prairie</title>
		<description><![CDATA[On an evening out in Eastern New Mexico that was so windy that I could barely open the doors to my truck, I found a little prairie rattlesnake stretched out in the road. Perfectly flat against the warm surface in a place where few vehicles have any business, he was out of the bite of [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://fieldherper.com/2012/12/12/wind-loving-prairie/</link>
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		<title>Trans-Pecos Ratsnake</title>
		<description><![CDATA[While down in Texas, I met what became one of my favorite colubrids within seeing a few individuals. I knew that the Trans Pecos Ratsnake (or &#8216;suboc&#8217;, short for Bogertophis subocularis) looked cool, but I wasn&#8217;t expecting the cool attitude they have. The first I saw just sat there as I approached. When in-hand, there [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://fieldherper.com/2012/12/10/trans-pecos-ratsnake/</link>
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		<title>Checkered Whiptail</title>
		<description><![CDATA[While I&#8217;m on the subject of blurry, rather terrible pictures of whiptails I&#8217;ve found, I might as well get this one up. This is Eastern New Mexico&#8217;s version of the little desert lizards. Though they can be found about anywhere in the grassy hills North of the Guadalupe mountains, I saw the highest frequency to [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://fieldherper.com/2012/12/07/checkered-whiptail/</link>
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		<title>Gila Spotted Whiptail</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Here&#8217;s one of the more common lizards around the Payson area. By common, I mean you can see them darting around in the landscaping between mini-malls and the like. Though they don&#8217;t really climb much, they do what they do very well, and have apparently adapted to thrive more or less throughout the entire city. [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://fieldherper.com/2012/12/05/gila-spotted-whiptail/</link>
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		<title>Faces of Glossy Snakes</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Here&#8217;s just a little bit of variation: two fairly common looking glossy snakes. One of the cool things about these guys is that shovel-nosed face and recessed lower jaw, perfect for nosing around in soft sand looking for prey. Like any animal, they can have a fair amount of variation between them. These two are [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://fieldherper.com/2012/12/02/faces-of-glossy-snakes/</link>
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		<title>Trans-Pecos Copperhead</title>
		<description><![CDATA[In August I got a new job, which means I had an opportunity to take a week off and head to New Mexico to visit my parents. While there, might as well find some snakes! I took off a few days early and headed South to meet a friend and try for my first non-rattling [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://fieldherper.com/2012/11/29/trans-pecos-copperhead/</link>
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		<title>The Worst Animal On My Blog</title>
		<description><![CDATA[So I don&#8217;t get photographed a lot doing what we do, which is understandable and probably for the best, since there&#8217;s always something more interesting to get in the viewfinder. Regardless, some of my friends get bored sometimes, and things happen. Here are a couple from this year&#8217;s trip to Pennsylvania. This first one is [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://fieldherper.com/2012/11/27/the-worst-animal-on-my-blog/</link>
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		<title>Eddy County, New Mexico</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Another shot of the amazing grassland and Chihuahuan scrub South of Carlsbad, New Mexcio. This habitat is great for a lot of things &#8211; most of what I found there were Western Diamondbacks with a much darker coloration than is typical here in Arizona. I know there are also Prairie Rattlesnakes here, but I did [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://fieldherper.com/2012/08/13/eddy-county-new-mexico/</link>
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		<title>Huge Western Banded Gecko</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I am really, really slacking in the posting of new content on this thing &#8230; it&#8217;s all good stuff though, it means I&#8217;m out in the field a lot and photographing a ton of reptiles. This is from the Spring of 2012, easily the largest Western Banded Gecko, Coleonyx variegatus, I&#8217;ve ever seen. Usually in [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://fieldherper.com/2012/08/06/huge-western-banded-gecko/</link>
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		<title>Tiger Rattlesnakes</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;ve been lucky enough (or worked at it hard enough) to see quite a few tiger rattlesnakes in the last week. It&#8217;s a species I never really knew how to find with any regularity until last year, and now it seems they&#8217;re all over the place. Beautiful little snakes. This is one from a locale [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://fieldherper.com/2012/07/06/tiger-rattlesnakes/</link>
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		<title>No Rain, Few Snakes</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Now in late June, without any measurable rain since December, things are tough out there. A night hike in a usually productive part of the Superstitions produced only one snake, a dehydrated diamondback out on the crawl. All weather reports say rain today; they said that yesterday too. Come on monsoons! Give me water man!]]></description>
		<link>http://fieldherper.com/2012/06/25/no-rain-few-snakes/</link>
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		<title>Rattlesnake Habitat in Ada County, Idaho</title>
		<description><![CDATA[This last September I got to spend a few days searching for densites for the Great Basin Rattlesnake, Crotalus oreganus lutosus, in South Western Idaho. I did succeed in finding them, and the journey wasn&#8217;t bad either. I&#8217;ll save the snake photos for when I finish working on them, but here&#8217;s a taste of what [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://fieldherper.com/2012/06/18/rattlesnake-habitat-in-ada-county-idaho/</link>
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		<title>Sonoran Sidewinder</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Another typical looking sidewinder, with a good look at those &#8216;horn&#8217; supraocular scales over each eye that helps keep it safe for a sandy lifestyle. Crotalus cerastes cercobombus]]></description>
		<link>http://fieldherper.com/2012/06/15/sonoran-sidewinder/</link>
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		<title>Patterns At Work</title>
		<description><![CDATA[If you didn&#8217;t know to look for a Sonoran Gophersnake in this photograph, or have many years of pattern recognition practice, you&#8217;d never know this guy was here. How many times that happens as you hike, take out the trash, run in the park, and walk in the woods? Many. You can't see me!]]></description>
		<link>http://fieldherper.com/2012/06/13/patterns-at-work/</link>
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		<title>Great Basin Collared Lizard</title>
		<description><![CDATA[On a long, dry, mostly snakeless Memorial day weekend in the red sand North of the Grand Canyon, we saw this Great Basin Collared lizard. At first it ran off, as they usually do, on two legs before stopping to check out the ugly primates with unknown intentions. I always love lizards for that &#8230; [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://fieldherper.com/2012/06/11/great-basin-collared-lizard-2/</link>
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		<title>Little Tiny Baby Milksnake</title>
		<description><![CDATA[My second eastern milksnake was found under a rock while we were looking (unsuccessfully) for copperheads. It was a lot smaller than I thought it would be, assuming they&#8217;d start life out somewhere near the size that I see our Lampropeltis of similar adult size. He sat on some nice contrasting moss for a bit [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://fieldherper.com/2012/06/08/little-tiny-baby-milksnake/</link>
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		<title>Big Yellow-Phase Timber</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Just another of the timer rattlesnakes seen on the 2012 PA trip. This was the only snake seen at a usually very populated basking/gestation site. It was noted that many of the leaves on surrounding trees were unusually gone or dead, leading to the unfortunate suspicion that something has happened to the area that may have had [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://fieldherper.com/2012/06/06/big-yellow-phase-timber/</link>
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		<title>Northern Watersnake</title>
		<description><![CDATA[This one is obviously staged, but be thankful for it because the alternative shot would have been the pancaked version of this snake if not scooped up from the road a few feet from this rock and stream. I know he wasn&#8217;t thankful, unless teeth and musk are a watersnake&#8217;s way of showing appreciation. Still, [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://fieldherper.com/2012/06/04/northern-watersnake/</link>
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		<title>American Toad</title>
		<description><![CDATA[This was the only toad species seen during the 2012 trip, though it was interesting to see the variation as we went from place to place. In this particular locale, the toads were a rose pink. Anaxyrus-americanus-1-050912]]></description>
		<link>http://fieldherper.com/2012/06/01/american-toad/</link>
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		<title>The first adult timber of the 2012 Pennsylvania trip</title>
		<description><![CDATA[A long hike in good habitat, although colder than we&#8217;d have liked, produced one more rattlesnake before night fell. This small adult wedged in a rock, soon to join the others we could hear elsewhere rattling under rocks we had checked. Crotalus horridus Along the way, and throughout the entire trip, we saw what was [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://fieldherper.com/2012/05/30/the-first-adult-timber-of-the-2012-pennsylvania-trip/</link>
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		<title>Pipeline</title>
		<description><![CDATA[One of the common sights, a strip of woodland cleared up and down the hills to make way for pipeline. PA pipeline]]></description>
		<link>http://fieldherper.com/2012/05/29/pipeline/</link>
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		<title>You Can&#8217;t See Me</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Check out the camo on this little guy. See him? About 10&#8243; long and holding perfectly still, it&#8217;s hard not to skip right over them while walking through the woods without a lifetime of search image development. Crotalus-horridus-5-050912]]></description>
		<link>http://fieldherper.com/2012/05/28/you-cant-see-me-2/</link>
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		<title>Baby snakes everywhere!</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Another of the baby rimber rattlesnakes from the first location on our 2012 trip. The little guys were everywhere! Not a buzz to be heard. Crotalus-horridus-3-050912 &#8230; and another just a few feet away. The heavily ridged nose on them looks very different than the rattlesnakes I&#8217;m used to seeing in Arizona, as well as [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://fieldherper.com/2012/05/25/baby-snakes-everywhere/</link>
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		<title>Eastern Gartersnake, the first snake of the 2012 Pennsylvania trip</title>
		<description><![CDATA[After being picked up at the airport and going to a place to change clothes and get into the field, we were only a few steps into what could be considered &#8216;habitat&#8217; and Kris saw his lifer Eastern Gartersnake sitting out in the open. We got photos and left without disturbing it. Thamnophis-sirtalis-1-050912]]></description>
		<link>http://fieldherper.com/2012/05/23/eastern-gartersnake-the-first-snake-of-the-2012-pennsylvania-trip/</link>
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		<title>My first Northern Watersnake</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Surprisingly, we didn&#8217;t see a Northern Watersnake, Nerodia sipedon sipedon, on my first trip out East last year. Being incredibly common throughout most of the US, it&#8217;s more surprising to me I&#8217;d never even seen any species of Nerodia! The first one happened unceremoniously by noticing that one of the &#8216;frogs&#8217; spooked into the water [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://fieldherper.com/2012/05/21/my-first-northern-watersnake/</link>
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		<title>Another Neonate horridus</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Number 3 of 11 at this spot, out in the light rain. Crotalus-horridus-2-050912]]></description>
		<link>http://fieldherper.com/2012/05/18/another-neonate-horridus/</link>
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		<title>Pennsylvania, 2012</title>
		<description><![CDATA[For the second year in a row, I flew out to Pennsylvania to meet some friends and go in search of Timber Rattlesnakes, and any of the other very non-desert herpetofauna there is to see. Without the who&#8217;s and where&#8217;s, within 4 hours of stepping off the plane we were staring at our first Crotalus [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://fieldherper.com/2012/05/16/pennsylvania-2012/</link>
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		<title>First Red-Diamond Rattlesnake from Southern California</title>
		<description><![CDATA[So I&#8217;ve lived and herped in Arizona for many years now, and I&#8217;ve never gone right over to California to do the same. I think it&#8217;s because I&#8217;ve always just thought &#8230; hey, it&#8217;s right there, a few hours away, I can always get to it when I get to it. Well this year I [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://fieldherper.com/2012/05/09/first-red-diamond-rattlesnake-from-southern-california/</link>
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		<title>Diamondbacks and Dumbasses</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Heading to my target location a week ago, early in the morning, I came across a horse trailer parked crooked in the middle of the dirt road. From experience, this means one thing: there&#8217;s a rattlesnake in front of the truck. I met a cowboy there who was shooting a handgun into a pile of [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://fieldherper.com/2012/05/07/diamondbacks-and-dumbasses/</link>
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		<title>Western Diamondback Rattlesnake, One and Only One</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Amazingly on this night, we only saw one rattlesnake despite the seemingly excellent conditions and 3 experienced field herpers searching an area well known to us. Oh well &#8230; the snake was not disturbed and never so much as stuck out a tongue at us. Photographed and left in this position without disturbance. Crotalus-atrox-1-042512]]></description>
		<link>http://fieldherper.com/2012/04/30/western-diamondback-rattlesnake-one-and-only-one/</link>
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		<title>Red Coachwhip from Phoenix</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Unlike most coachwhips I&#8217;ve seen, this guy just sat there and let us photograph him. Found and left alone exactly in this position. Coluber-flagellum-piceus-1-042512]]></description>
		<link>http://fieldherper.com/2012/04/27/red-coachwhip-from-phoenix/</link>
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		<title>The first blacktail of 2012</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Oh man, I&#8217;m way behind! I have so many photos to get through from 2011 I have no hope of getting them on here anytime soon, and it looks like my &#8216;pre-cooked&#8217; posts have run out. Until I get some sit down time, this first blacktailed rattlesnake of my 2012 season will have to make [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://fieldherper.com/2012/04/22/the-first-blacktail-of-2012/</link>
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		<title>Photographing Turtles: I&#8217;m No Good at It</title>
		<description><![CDATA[On the way to a good blacktail spot, I saw this little mud turtle and decided to try for some photos. He wasn&#8217;t having it, and stayed in the shell until I decided I&#8217;ve spent enough time waiting. You win dude.]]></description>
		<link>http://fieldherper.com/2012/02/27/photographing-turtles-im-no-good-at-it/</link>
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		<title>Neonate Timber Rattlesnake</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Sitting out in the cold, wet Spring air. Of the 59 timber rattlesnakes we saw in those few days, this was the smallest, but don&#8217;t tell him that.]]></description>
		<link>http://fieldherper.com/2012/02/20/neonate-timber-rattlesnake/</link>
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		<title>Extremely Dark Mojave</title>
		<description><![CDATA[This is an older photo, from one of my first trips to the extreme South Eastern part of Arizona. We found this very dark Mojave rattlesnake &#8230; dark enough in fact that I really had no idea what it was, and wasn&#8217;t experienced enough to not rule out that something I wasn&#8217;t aware of had [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://fieldherper.com/2012/02/13/extremely-dark-mojave/</link>
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		<title>Speckled Rattlesnake from Maricopa County</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Most of the Specks from the area around Phoenix are a pretty drab brown color (other than South Mountain, where they are a blue/white color). Not the prettiest speckled rattlesnake I&#8217;ve seen, but certainly more colorful than most I tend to see around my house. Southwestern Speckled Rattlesnake]]></description>
		<link>http://fieldherper.com/2012/02/06/speckled-rattlesnake-from-maricopa-county/</link>
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		<title>Trio of Timber Rattlesnakes</title>
		<description><![CDATA[This rock hid at least three Timber rattlesnakes, keeping out of sight on a rather cold, wet morning. The yellow one takes the cake, in my opinion. Sorry, other guys in the photo. Your email:&#160;]]></description>
		<link>http://fieldherper.com/2012/01/30/trio-of-timber-rattlesnakes/</link>
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		<title>Future Roadburger Candidate</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I scooted him away this time, but I doubt he&#8217;ll change his ways. P-solare-1-042810]]></description>
		<link>http://fieldherper.com/2012/01/25/future-roadburger-candidate/</link>
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		<title>Beautiful Blacktail</title>
		<description><![CDATA[One of the ways that I&#8217;ve decided to take my hobby is to start speaking at events as a local snake &#8216;expert&#8217;. I have a pretty decent collection of native rattlesnakes at home, but it was finally time to go try and pick up a great specimen of my absolute favorite of Arizona rattlesnakes, the Northern Blacktailed [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://fieldherper.com/2012/01/23/beautiful-blacktail/</link>
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		<title>Big Old Tiger Rattlesnake</title>
		<description><![CDATA[This was found on a front porch in Anthem, Arizona (where I live, just North of Phoenix). They&#8217;re typically grey in this, or maybe a little bit of blue tint. This old guy looked purple. Really a pretty snake to see in person, and I was happy to relocate it so it can continue living. [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://fieldherper.com/2012/01/18/big-old-tiger-rattlesnake/</link>
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		<title>Northern Racer &#8211; My First</title>
		<description><![CDATA[This is the East coast&#8217;s version of our own Coluber species, the fast, rather intelligent snakes such as coachwhips and whipsnakes &#8230; probably responsible for more bites on my hands than any other species. Our target this day was Timber rattlesnakes, but I was equally happy to see this guy. We got to get good [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://fieldherper.com/2012/01/16/northern-racer-my-first/</link>
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		<title>Black Phase Timber Rattlesnakes</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Two of many seen in Spring of 2011. C-horridus-18-051411 Crotalus-horridus-2-051611]]></description>
		<link>http://fieldherper.com/2012/01/11/black-phase-timber-rattlesnakes/</link>
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		<title>Eastern Collared Lizard &#8211; Blacktail Collateral</title>
		<description><![CDATA[These beautiful lizards are common sights on rocks on route to one of my favorite blacktail and Arizona black rattlesnake spots. They&#8217;re a bit hard to photograph with the 28-135 I had handy, but I manage to get one from time to time. If nothing else, getting out every mile or so to chase lizards [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://fieldherper.com/2012/01/09/eastern-collared-lizard-blacktail-collateral/</link>
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		<title>Idaho Rattlesnakes</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I went up in September of 2011 to visit some friends, and of course spent some time hiking the grasslands looking for rattlesnakes. I managed to find a den of Great Basin Rattlesnakes, Crotalus oreganus lutosus, but only got to photograph one of them that was out a good distance from the others. I&#8217;ll be [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://fieldherper.com/2012/01/06/idaho-rattlesnakes/</link>
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		<title>Neonate Glossy Snake</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Arizona-elegans-091611]]></description>
		<link>http://fieldherper.com/2012/01/04/neonate-glossy-snake/</link>
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		<title>Eastern Milksnake, Lampropeltis triangulum triangulum</title>
		<description><![CDATA[&#8230; aaaaand the milksnake mentioned in the previous post. Another very common snake in Pennsylvania, but of course the first (and only) I&#8217;ve ever seen. It&#8217;s amazing to me how much the pattern and color converge with non-Lampropeltis genera (such as Pantherophis) of similar lifestyle. Not the most colorful of the species, it was a [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://fieldherper.com/2012/01/04/eastern-milksnake-lampropeltis-triangulum-triangulum/</link>
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		<title>Not a reptile, but still my first of these. North American Millipede</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Saw this weird little thing just after photographing a milksnake in Pennsylvania in May. I&#8217;m sure they&#8217;re common as dirt out there, but it&#8217;s new to me. Apheloria-virginiensis]]></description>
		<link>http://fieldherper.com/2012/01/02/not-a-reptile-but-still-my-first-of-these-north-american-millipede/</link>
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		<title>American Toad, Anaxyrus mericanus</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The first of these I&#8217;ve seen, on a 2011 trip to Pennsylvania. It was cold enough outside to see my breath that night, which isn&#8217;t something I&#8217;m used to looking for herps in back in Arizona.]]></description>
		<link>http://fieldherper.com/2011/12/26/american-toad-anaxyrus-mericanus/</link>
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		<title>Night Hike Tiger Rattlesnake</title>
		<description><![CDATA[On a night time desert hike, taking part in a herpetological survey of a local mountain range, a friend of mine found this tiger rattlesnake sitting in in the rocks. The orange coloration is atypical for this locale, so it was cool too see, not that I&#8217;m not happy to see any tiger rattlesnake at [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://fieldherper.com/2011/12/21/night-hike-tiger-rattlesnake/</link>
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		<title>Banded Rock Rattlesnake Out at Night</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Here&#8217;s a pretty, young male Banded Rock Rattlesnake I found one night out crawling around. He was just over a foot long, but he didnt&#8217; seem to know it &#8230; probably the most aggressive of this species I&#8217;ve ever seen. I escaped with all fingers intact.]]></description>
		<link>http://fieldherper.com/2011/12/19/banded-rock-rattlesnake-out-at-night/</link>
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		<title>Timber Rattlesnake Den</title>
		<description><![CDATA[This is one of the many small den sites we found in a few days during Spring of 2010, and this was a typical site. In the middle of the rocks are just a pile of very large rattlesnakes. This trip was my first time experiencing timber rattlesnakes at all, to see them just laying [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://fieldherper.com/2011/12/14/timber-rattlesnake-den/</link>
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		<title>Great Basin Collared Lizard</title>
		<description><![CDATA[After many miles hiking the area above the North rim of the Grand Canyon, without finding much, I got close enough to this pretty Great Basin Collared Lizard to get a few shots.]]></description>
		<link>http://fieldherper.com/2011/12/12/great-basin-collared-lizard/</link>
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		<title>Weird Looking Rock</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;m not sure who this snake was trying to fool, but it wasn&#8217;t me. A bright orange rattlesnake sitting on top of a rock caught my eye from a good 50 feet away and brought me over, and yup, it&#8217;s a speckled rattlesnake out getting some morning sun. I found a good spot and watched [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://fieldherper.com/2011/12/07/weird-looking-rock/</link>
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		<title>Diamondback in the Early Evening</title>
		<description><![CDATA[We had a great night after this shot was taken. This was the first of many we&#8217;d see in the next few hours.]]></description>
		<link>http://fieldherper.com/2011/12/05/diamondback-in-the-early-evening/</link>
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		<title>Common Snake on Uncommon Terms</title>
		<description><![CDATA[These long-nosed snakes can be found about anywhere that sleeping lizards can, and I see a lot of them. This kind though, not so much. The clarus phase is lighter and the red bands between the black are completely missing, or in this case faded to a few rosy hold-outs near the last third of [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://fieldherper.com/2011/11/28/common-snake-on-uncommon-terms/</link>
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		<title>Black Phase Timber Rattlesnake</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Crotalus horridus]]></description>
		<link>http://fieldherper.com/2011/11/25/black-phase-timber-rattlesnake/</link>
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		<title>Show Me Your Peepers</title>
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		<link>http://fieldherper.com/2011/11/23/show-me-your-peepers/</link>
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		<title>Big Bend Patch-Nosed Snake</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I was driving along on my way to Carlsbad New Mexico and saw this guy cruising through a field off the side of the road near Columbus. I was able to get out and in front of him and get a couple of photos. The first is when he first saw his path obstructed with [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://fieldherper.com/2011/11/21/big-bend-patch-nosed-snake/</link>
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		<title>Eastern Gartersnake Being Sneaky</title>
		<description><![CDATA[&#8230; or not really. Here&#8217;s another little tiny baby gartersnake we found while walking around swampland looking for Massasaugas in Pennsylvania last Spring. Your email:&#160;]]></description>
		<link>http://fieldherper.com/2011/11/18/eastern-gartersnake-being-sneaky/</link>
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		<title>White Pine County, Nevada</title>
		<description><![CDATA[On a recent trip to Idaho, I got to spend an afternoon in the Great Basin National Park area of Eastern Nevada. I struck out on my target snakes, but still really enjoyed myself in the remote upland areas of the wilderness there.]]></description>
		<link>http://fieldherper.com/2011/11/16/white-pine-county-nevada/</link>
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		<title>Desert Spiny Lizard</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Awake before all the other lizards, North of Phoenix in July. Desert Spiny Lizard, Sceloporus magister desert spiny lizard]]></description>
		<link>http://fieldherper.com/2011/11/14/desert-spiny-lizard/</link>
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		<title>&#8220;Baby Rattlesnake&#8221;</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Obviously it&#8217;s not, but these groundsnakes get into houses a lot, and &#8220;baby rattlesnake&#8221; is what the people who call my snake removal service often tell me it is. The baby they describe is actually full-sized at a little over a foot long, and can get anywhere scorpions can. This one wasn&#8217;t found in a [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://fieldherper.com/2011/11/07/baby-rattlesnake/</link>
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		<title>Pennsylvania! Timber Rattlesnakes all over the place.</title>
		<description><![CDATA[In May I had a chance to go to Pennsylvania to visit some good friends and photograph dozens of wild Timber rattlesnakes (Crotalus horridus). It was by far the furthest East I have ever been, and it was incredibly fun being in environments that were completely alien to me. Every plant, insect, and of course [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://fieldherper.com/2011/11/02/pennsylvania-timber-rattlesnakes-all-over-the-place/</link>
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		<title>Terrible Photo of a First-Time Lizard</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Ya, I know &#8230; but it was the first of these guys I photographed, so it is what it is! I&#8217;ve seen a lot more since then, and apparently had seen a lot before too, after taking the time to learn the visual differences between this and other common lizards in the area. Striped Plateau [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://fieldherper.com/2011/10/31/terrible-photo-of-a-first-time-lizard/</link>
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		<title>Sonoran Mountain Kingsnake, Lampropeltis pyromelena</title>
		<description><![CDATA[L-pyromelena-1-070911 L-pyromelena-2-070911]]></description>
		<link>http://fieldherper.com/2011/10/24/sonoran-mountain-kingsnake-lampropeltis-pyromelena/</link>
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		<title>Blacktailed Rattlesnake Getting Out of the Summer Sun</title>
		<description><![CDATA[After a long day of searching without much to show for it, we found this guy sitting out the sunshine 30 steps from the car on the way out on a &#8220;let&#8217;s just check that shady spot really quick&#8221; time-waster. Glad we stopped! Blacktailed Badass]]></description>
		<link>http://fieldherper.com/2011/10/21/blacktailed-rattlesnake-getting-out-of-the-summer-sun/</link>
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		<title>Black-Necked Gartersnakes Tadpole Hunting</title>
		<description><![CDATA[In the pools of water near one of my favorite black-tail spots, these baby gartersnakes are everywhere. They&#8217;re trying to eat tadpoles, and they&#8217;re absolutely awful at it. For as much time as I&#8217;ve spent there, I&#8217;ve never seen one actually succeed (though I have seen them try and miss a lot). Black Necked Gartersnake [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://fieldherper.com/2011/10/17/black-necked-gartersnakes-tadpole-hunting/</link>
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		<title>Tiny sidewinder with a fancy tail</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I found this little guy in the Spring, barely the size of a pencil. I don&#8217;t even photograph most of them from the amount that are seen, but this one had a tail pattern turned 90 degrees, resulting in a single black stripe running the length. I hope he lives long enough to see him [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://fieldherper.com/2011/10/14/tiny-sidewinder-with-a-fancy-tail/</link>
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		<title>Western Diamondback in the Early Morning</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Kris and I found this diamondback laying in the middle of a dry wash at about 5am one morning, exactly as pictured here. We were really up there looking for blacktails and az black rattlers, but I&#8217;m always happy to see an atrox. Sleepy time atrox]]></description>
		<link>http://fieldherper.com/2011/10/10/western-diamondback-in-the-early-morning/</link>
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		<title>Fall Diamondback</title>
		<description><![CDATA[We do get colorful leaves in the fall too &#8230; just not as many of them. Oh ya, and there&#8217;s a big rattlesnake sitting there too. Western Diamondback Rattlesnake]]></description>
		<link>http://fieldherper.com/2011/10/07/fall-diamondback/</link>
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		<title>Young Male Mojave</title>
		<description><![CDATA[This is a common look for a young male Mojave rattlesnake out West of Phoenix. Notice the enlargement in the tail, past the cloaca, as a giveaway of the animal&#8217;s gender. Males store the hemipenes in the tail area, creating the swell. Northern Mojave Rattlesnake]]></description>
		<link>http://fieldherper.com/2011/10/03/young-male-mojave/</link>
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		<title>The Arizona Strip</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Arizona Strip]]></description>
		<link>http://fieldherper.com/2011/09/30/the-arizona-strip/</link>
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		<title>Colorful Sonoran Gophersnake</title>
		<description><![CDATA[This one isn&#8217;t technically wild; he was captured by my snake removal service at a home in Phoenix and this is the the wash where he&#8217;s released. I don&#8217;t usually photograph the releases, but he looked cool on the white rocks, so here he is. Gophersnakes like this are the second most common animal I [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://fieldherper.com/2011/09/26/colorful-sonoran-gophersnake/</link>
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		<title>Lonely Young Mojave</title>
		<description><![CDATA[This is one of just a handful of young snakes we found on a hot, dry June evening West of Phoenix. While I don&#8217;t normally go looking for these guys in the driest parts of the year, I had a friend in town and it seemed possible to see something &#8230; and if you only [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://fieldherper.com/2011/09/19/lonely-young-mojave/</link>
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		<title>Good Morning Lizardface</title>
		<description><![CDATA[While sitting in the bushes for an hour or two watching a Speckled Rattlesnake, I was also being watched. lizard mania]]></description>
		<link>http://fieldherper.com/2011/09/14/good-morning-lizardface/</link>
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		<title>Little Teeny Baby Horned Lizard</title>
		<description><![CDATA[We found this little dude sitting in a wash where I frequently look for Black-Tailed Rattlesnakes (we found one of those too). It&#8217;s a greater short-horned lizard, Phrynosoma hernandesi. Greater Short Horned Lizard]]></description>
		<link>http://fieldherper.com/2011/09/12/little-teeny-baby-horned-lizard/</link>
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		<title>Coachwhip In-Situ</title>
		<description><![CDATA[These guys are hard to catch, and harder to photograph. I managed to sneak up on this one getting some early morning sun and get a photo shots before it disappeared into the brush. Sonoran Coachwhip, Coluber flagellum cingulum Coachwhip]]></description>
		<link>http://fieldherper.com/2011/09/07/coachwhip-in-situ/</link>
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		<title>Mojave Rattlesnake</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Crotalus scutulatus]]></description>
		<link>http://fieldherper.com/2011/09/05/mojave-rattlesnake-2/</link>
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		<title>Arizona Black Rattlesnake with a Fancy Tongue</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I haven&#8217;t seen this before! Bright pink tongue coming out of that dark little venom-filled head. Crotalus cerberus]]></description>
		<link>http://fieldherper.com/2011/08/31/arizona-black-rattlesnake-with-a-fancy-tongue/</link>
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		<title>Arizona Black Rattlesnake from a New Locale</title>
		<description><![CDATA[It feels good being right about stuff, especially after some hard work. I had an idea about new locations to find Arizona Black Rattlesnakes, Crotalus cerberus, and got to work looking at maps. A few days later, here&#8217;s the result; a big rattlesnake laying in ambush near a waterhole. It&#8217;s a great feeling to see [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://fieldherper.com/2011/08/29/arizona-black-rattlesnake-from-a-new-locale/</link>
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		<title>Good Morning to You Too, Asshole</title>
		<description><![CDATA[After a long night of herping and not seeing much at all, I finally found &#8230; or was found, rather, by this diamondback just a few yards from my camp. I think he was already a little worked up from the cows that came through a short time beforehand. Western Diamondback Rattlesnake, Crotalus atrox Crotalus [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://fieldherper.com/2011/08/24/good-morning-to-you-too-asshole/</link>
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		<title>Sonoran Whipsnake In-Situ</title>
		<description><![CDATA[This is the first Sonoran Whipsnake, Coluber bilineatus, I&#8217;ve managed to photograph as-seen without being laid across a roadway or other artificial basking surface. I was hiking through a canyon in the Superstition mountains with Mark Leppin and saw him coming out of a tangle of brush. He sat perfectly still and we got a [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://fieldherper.com/2011/08/22/sonoran-whipsnake-in-situ/</link>
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		<title>Blah blah blah. Way behind on all counts. Upcoming trip.</title>
		<description><![CDATA[So, I&#8217;m way behind on this thing. I do have a few posts coming in on essentially maintenance mode (one per week, set well ahead of time) so that I had the freedom to not look at a computer for awhile and be out looking for snakes. It&#8217;s been a tough year so far with [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://fieldherper.com/2011/08/21/blah-blah-blah-way-behind-on-all-counts-upcoming-trip/</link>
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		<title>Diamondback with a Cool Pattern</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Looking for giant Diamondback Rattlesnakes with some Swedish friends visiting the US for the first time, we found this cool little guy. The diamond pattern on the latter third of her body had been reduced to a series of black blotches.  This is part of the reason that no matter how many diamondbacks or sidewinders [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://fieldherper.com/2011/08/15/diamondback-with-a-cool-pattern/</link>
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		<title>Arizona</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Arzona Sunset]]></description>
		<link>http://fieldherper.com/2011/08/08/arizona/</link>
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		<title>Sonoran Lyresnake</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Trimorphodon lambda: Pencil-thin, huge-eyed, and slightly venomous &#8230; I love these guys. Trimorphodon lambda Trimorphodon lambda]]></description>
		<link>http://fieldherper.com/2011/07/25/sonoran-lyresnake-2/</link>
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		<title>Diamondback Crawling Through Brush</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Nothing too special about this one &#8230; a pretty typical looking animal for this area. I followed it for a short time but failed to get any good full-body images, as it was moving through thick brush. I did manage to get this shot of his head, however, as he crawled between shrubs. Crotalus atrox]]></description>
		<link>http://fieldherper.com/2011/07/23/diamondback-crawling-through-brush/</link>
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		<title>Checkered Gartersnake from New Mexico</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I know they&#8217;re common as dirt, but I rarely see these checkered gartersnakes in Arizona, with the exception of along certain grassland corridors. They&#8217;re pretty little snakes that, in my experience, aren&#8217;t so quick to musk and bite as their black-necked cousins more commonly seen around Phoenix. T-marcianus-1-051810 T-marcianus-2-051810]]></description>
		<link>http://fieldherper.com/2011/07/18/checkered-gartersnake-from-new-mexico/</link>
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		<title>My First Sonoran Mountain Kingsnake</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;m not sure why, but this is a species that I&#8217;ve never seen before. I&#8217;ve been all over their range, in good habitat, looking for rattlesnakes and such &#8230; just never bumped into one of these. They&#8217;re beautiful, but it&#8217;s never been an actual target on a trip. That might need to change. Lampropeltis pyromelana [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://fieldherper.com/2011/07/14/my-first-sonoran-mountain-kingsnake/</link>
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		<title>Diamondback in the Morning</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Crotalus atrox Your email:&#160;]]></description>
		<link>http://fieldherper.com/2011/07/11/diamondback-in-the-morning/</link>
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		<title>One Of My Favorite Finds from 2010, Black Tailed Rattlesnake in the Guadalupe Mountains</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I like how the photo turned out, but to me, this is the end of weeks of searching, many miles hiked, hundreds of miles on the road, and way too many of gas station burritos from Carlsbad, NM. I found it with my sister, so it was even better. Crotalus molossu]]></description>
		<link>http://fieldherper.com/2011/07/05/one-of-my-favorite-finds-from-2010-black-tailed-rattlesnake-in-the-guadalupe-mountains/</link>
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		<title>Smith&#8217;s Black-Headed Snake</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Here&#8217;s one of the tiny, ground dwelling species that are incredibly common throughout Arizona, Smith&#8217;s Black Headed Snake (Tantilla hobartsmithi). Of course they&#8217;re harmless, but they still scare a good amount of people around town since they&#8217;re able to easily gain entry into homes. Whenever I get a call from my snake removal service to [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://fieldherper.com/2011/06/27/smiths-black-headed-snake/</link>
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		<title>Good Morning Mr. Grumpypants</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I know the sun just came up, but you don&#8217;t have to be so rude. Crotalus atrox Your email:&#160;]]></description>
		<link>http://fieldherper.com/2011/06/20/good-morning-mr-grumpypants/</link>
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		<title>Chihuahuan Nightsnake</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Here&#8217;s a rather large (by large, I mean about 14&#8243;) nightsnake from New Mexico. This species is of a tougher build and more squat than the Desert species I&#8217;m used to seeing in Phoenix &#8230; pretty cool, and puts on quite a threat display that I wasn&#8217;t expecting. I regretfully didn&#8217;t get any good photos [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://fieldherper.com/2011/06/13/chihuahuan-nightsnake-2/</link>
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		<title>Calm Down There, Buddy</title>
		<description><![CDATA[One of the only snakes of this trip, we saw this medium-sized gophersnake early on. They tend to show up like that, on the drive into the prime location, giving the false impression that it&#8217;s going to be a great day. It was a great day of friends and field of course, but snakes were [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://fieldherper.com/2011/06/06/calm-down-there-buddy/</link>
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		<title>You Can&#8217;t See Me</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The camo is especially effective in the low sun of late-day. I realized that I would never even see these guys if they didn&#8217;t always run off when I approach. Someone should tell them to stay put, because they&#8217;re way too easy to catch &#8230; even by big slow herpers like me. Regal Horned Lizard]]></description>
		<link>http://fieldherper.com/2011/05/30/you-cant-see-me/</link>
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		<title>Black Necked Gartersnake</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Here&#8217;s a little, baby black-necked gartersnake (Thamnophis cyrtopsis) from Yavapai county, one of the first I&#8217;d ever seen in this area, and a good distance from any water source. T-cyrtopsis-081807]]></description>
		<link>http://fieldherper.com/2011/05/27/black-necked-gartersnake/</link>
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		<title>Chiricahua Leopard Frog</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Near Phoenix, I&#8217;m not used to seeing frogs. One of the nice things about the Southern half of our state is that about any body of water you look in will have a lot of them. Hopefully, they&#8217;re these guys, and not the invasive bullfrogs that destroy native waterways. Rana chiricahuensis]]></description>
		<link>http://fieldherper.com/2011/05/23/chiricahua-leopard-frog-2/</link>
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		<title>Long Nosed Snake in the Trash</title>
		<description><![CDATA[After a long day of hiking a little over a year ago, we found a longnosed snake (Rhinocheilus lecontei) under some trash. It was about the happiest I&#8217;ve ever been to see a longnose! longnosed garbage snake]]></description>
		<link>http://fieldherper.com/2011/05/16/long-nosed-snake-in-the-trash/</link>
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		<title>Tarantula from New Mexico</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I noticed these guys are a bit larger where I was in New Mexico. Anyone know the species of this lady(?) Tarantula]]></description>
		<link>http://fieldherper.com/2011/05/09/tarantula-from-new-mexico/</link>
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		<title>Excuses, Excuses</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Here are 3 of the 50+ reasons in the last two weeks why I&#8217;ve been slow to respond to email, write on my blog, or eat anything not served in a bag. C-c-cercobombus-1-041811 C-scutulatus0041611 C-atrox-041611]]></description>
		<link>http://fieldherper.com/2011/04/27/excuses-excuses/</link>
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		<title>Following A Diamondback</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I went on a short afternoon hike today to see if I could find some diamondbacks, or at least work on my new boots a bit before my big trip to PA in 3 weeks. Within 15 minutes I found a skinny, female diamondback out sniffing through some brush, and was far enough away so [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://fieldherper.com/2011/04/25/following-a-diamondback/</link>
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		<title>Dark Mojave with a Stripe on the Neck</title>
		<description><![CDATA[So &#8230; I&#8217;ve really neglected my blog lately, and that&#8217;s all due to good things. I&#8217;ve been getting out and finding snakes as much as I can, and an evening at the computer just isn&#8217;t as appealing now as it is in the cooler months when I can&#8217;t imagine a billion snakes crawling around the [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://fieldherper.com/2011/04/22/dark-mojave-with-a-stripe-on-the-neck/</link>
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		<title>Baby Blacktail</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Here&#8217;s the smallest Blacktailed Rattlesnake I&#8217;ve ever seen &#8230; I see plenty of these guys, so I&#8217;m not quite sure why I never see babies. Cute little guy. C-m-molossus-082910]]></description>
		<link>http://fieldherper.com/2011/04/20/baby-blacktail/</link>
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		<title>Bad Day to Be a Tarantula</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Here&#8217;s a paralyzed tarantula being dragged through the desert by a tarantula hawk, who had apparently taken a route through an ant nest. I can count 6 different things biting the spider at the same time &#8230; not a good day. tarantulahawk]]></description>
		<link>http://fieldherper.com/2011/04/19/bad-day-to-be-a-tarantula/</link>
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		<title>Baby Diamondback Release</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Here&#8217;s a little, baby Western Diamondback Rattlesnake that we released to a new home, captured by my rattlesnake relocation service. He&#8217;s just a little guy, but as you can see, he knows how to take care of himself. Crotalus atrox]]></description>
		<link>http://fieldherper.com/2011/04/18/baby-diamondback-release/</link>
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		<title>ALL GLORY TO THE HYPNOTOAD</title>
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		<link>http://fieldherper.com/2011/04/04/all-glory-to-the-hypnotoad/</link>
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		<title>Baby White Specks, Incoming</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Here&#8217;s a photo of a female speckled rattlesnake that I have in my office &#8230; she&#8217;s ridiculously beautiful as you can see. She&#8217;s also recently been quite friendly with the big male of the same variety and coloration that lives with her, so friendly in fact that I expect some babies in a few months. [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://fieldherper.com/2011/03/28/baby-white-specks-incoming/</link>
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		<title>Don&#8217;t Play In The Road</title>
		<description><![CDATA[This is a closeup of a Blacktailed Rattlesnake, Crotalus molossus, from the Superstition mountains that had been clipped by a car. He had some problems with the mouth, as you can see in the photo, but may be ok. I spend so much time looking for these guys that it&#8217;s amazing that people don&#8217;t see [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://fieldherper.com/2011/03/21/dont-play-in-the-road/</link>
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		<title>A Gravid, Young Diamondback</title>
		<description><![CDATA[We found this little lady one night in a wash, full of developing babies. It was a good candidate for some light HDR, being one of the many dozens of diamondbacks I&#8217;ve found and photographed in the year. Western Diamondback Rattlesnake One more of the little lady &#8230; Crotalus atrox Here&#8217;s another one found a [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://fieldherper.com/2011/03/14/a-gravid-young-diamondback/</link>
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		<title>First Wild Snake of 2011</title>
		<description><![CDATA[It&#8217;s not a rattlesnake, but I&#8217;m kind of glad &#8230; the first snake of the year for me has been a Western Diamondback for the last several years, so at least this is something different AND something new for me. This is a patch-nosed snake, a pretty common sight in the Spring daytime &#8230; but [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://fieldherper.com/2011/03/11/first-wild-snake-of-2011/</link>
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		<title>Arizona Black Rattlesnake, Nice &amp; Close</title>
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		<link>http://fieldherper.com/2011/03/09/arizona-black-rattlesnake-nice-close/</link>
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		<title>Sonoran Coralsnake: The Only One I Saw in 2010</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Cruising around with a few friends in August, we lucked out. We had two vehicles making passes on a stretch of road looking for rattlesnakes, and on the way back I saw that the other car had stopped and they were photographing something. Turns out they had caught a nightsnake and were setting it up [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://fieldherper.com/2011/03/07/sonoran-coralsnake-the-only-one-i-saw-in-2010/</link>
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		<title>Quit Staring at me Frog!</title>
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		<link>http://fieldherper.com/2011/03/04/quit-staring-at-me-frog/</link>
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		<title>Mcdowell Mountains Tiger Rattlesnake</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Here&#8217;s a nice bluish tiger rattlesnake from the Mountains near Fountain Hills found with some friends one night.  Look at that funny little head, haha. I have one of these that lives in an enclosure with a few speckled rattlesnakes, and the body-girth to head-size ratio between them puts their head pretty much at half [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://fieldherper.com/2011/02/28/mcdowell-mountains-tiger-rattlesnake/</link>
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		<title>Watch Your Step 2</title>
		<description><![CDATA[If this Mojave (Crotalus scutulatus scutualtus)  hadn&#8217;t buzzed me, I&#8217;d have never seen him as I walked by just a few feet away.]]></description>
		<link>http://fieldherper.com/2011/02/25/watch-your-step-2/</link>
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		<title>Speckled Rattlesnakes Mating</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I have a beautiful pair of speckled rattlesnakes that I keep in my office &#8230; they&#8217;re both white &#8230; not light, but WHITE like vanilla frosting. He&#8217;s been putting the moves on her for a few weeks now, and this is the first time it&#8217;s actually happened. These are going to be some really good [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://fieldherper.com/2011/02/24/speckled-rattlesnakes-mating/</link>
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		<title>The Least Expected Rattlesnake Ever</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I was out cruising for snakes with my brother in August of 2010 in the sandy flats West of Phoenix and found something I never expected to. Where we were was the land of mojaves, sidewinders, and other flat-land loving sand surfers &#8230; quite far from the nearest rocky foothills where speckled rattlesnakes and blacktailed [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://fieldherper.com/2011/02/21/the-least-expected-rattlesnake-ever/</link>
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		<title>Diamondback Rattlesnake Whoops</title>
		<description><![CDATA[This is a diamondback I&#8217;ve been watching for awhile, and successfully out of sight until this particular morning when he found me first. Lesson learned that day: just because a snake is sitting at the exact same place every day for a 14 days doesn&#8217;t mean he&#8217;ll be in the same spot for 15. Took [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://fieldherper.com/2011/02/18/diamondback-rattlesnake-whoops/</link>
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		<title>Canyon Treefrog Playing Pebble</title>
		<description><![CDATA[You&#8217;re not fooling anyone, dude.]]></description>
		<link>http://fieldherper.com/2011/02/16/canyon-treefrog-playing-pebble/</link>
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		<title>Black Tailed Rattlesnake from the Guadalupe Mountains in New Mexico</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I spent 3 weeks in Eddy County in 2010, as I&#8217;ve mentioned about a million times by this point, a good part of which were looking for this guy. It&#8217;s a Black Tailed Rattlesnake, Crotalus molossus molossus, and oh man &#8230; these guys are a lot harder to find out there than they are back [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://fieldherper.com/2011/02/14/black-tailed-rattlesnake-from-the-guadalupe-mountains-in-new-mexico/</link>
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		<title>One More elegans &#8230; A Painted Desert Glossy Snake from Hudspeth County, Texas</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Between the desert glossysnake and Kansas variety I posted last week, I found this Painted Desert glossysnake in the North Western extreme of Texas out and about at 52F &#8230; cold enough that I wasn&#8217;t comfortable with a long photo session. These snakes can be incredibly colorful, and this is a good example. Most of [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://fieldherper.com/2011/02/11/one-more-elegans-a-painted-desert-glossy-snake-from-hudspeth-county-texas/</link>
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		<title>Another Tarantula From The Past</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Here&#8217;s another one from back when I had just discovered the fun of wandering around at night, taking pictures of things. Based on how awful this photo is, this very well could be one of the first wild tarantulas I&#8217;d ever seen. Tarantula]]></description>
		<link>http://fieldherper.com/2011/02/09/another-tarantula-from-the-past/</link>
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		<title>A Baby Glossy Snake</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Pretty little thing &#8230; a tiny Glossy Snake, Arizona elegans, out on the crawl what must be moments after leaving the egg. Arizona elegans While I&#8217;m on the subject, here&#8217;s another example of this species that I found in New Mexico in 2010 of the &#8220;Kansas&#8221; subspecies. This is a snake that even one of [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://fieldherper.com/2011/02/07/a-baby-glossy-snake/</link>
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		<title>Superbowl Sunday Snake: First Rattlesnake Relocation of 2011</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I was surprised to get a call from the Arizona Herpetological Association today to relocate a young diamondback near my home. It was hiding in a water box in a front yard in the Carefree Highway / I-17 area. I found a really great place for him to hide instead, about a half mile away. [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://fieldherper.com/2011/02/06/1680/</link>
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		<title>Baby Blacknecked Gartersnake Failing to Catch Tadpoles</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I watched this baby Black Necked Gartersnake, Thamnophis cyrtopsis, try and fail to catch tadpoles in this pool for about a half hour. I really wanted to get a photo of him eating his prey, but he just wasn&#8217;t very good at it, and my real goal of the trip were the area&#8217;s blacktailed rattlesnakes. [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://fieldherper.com/2011/02/04/baby-blacknecked-gartersnake-failing-to-catch-tadpoles/</link>
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		<title>Roomies: Desert Tortoises and Rattlesnakes</title>
		<description><![CDATA[In a wash near my home this year, I focused on just a few individual diamondbacks. On one trip, I looked into a hole and found both a desert tortoise and a diamondback sitting there together! I got my camera out, stuck my head in the hole, and turned on the light. CH-CH-SHHHHHHHHHHHH!!!! The diamondback [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://fieldherper.com/2011/01/31/roomies-desert-tortoises-and-rattlesnakes/</link>
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		<title>Big Black Lizards</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I see them all the time, but realized this year that I really have almost no photographs of our big desert Chuckwallas, Sauromalus ater. They&#8217;re big, relatively colorful (in some places) lizards that you can pretty much see anywhere one would hike in the Sonoran desert. Just look up to the rocky outcroppings and they&#8217;ll [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://fieldherper.com/2011/01/28/big-black-lizards/</link>
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		<title>Lifer: New Mexico Milksnake</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I found this New Mexico Milksnake, Lampropeltis triangulum celaenops, crossing a 5 lane highway in the middle of a dust storm, with temps in the low 50&#8242;s. Wow! That was the last thing I expected to find &#8230; and boy was I happy. My first milksnake, and it&#8217;s a good one. This fella came home [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://fieldherper.com/2011/01/24/lifer-new-mexico-milksnake/</link>
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		<title>Diamondbacks of Eddy County, New Mexico</title>
		<description><![CDATA[In the 3 weeks I spent herping the areas around Carlsbad, New Mexico, I found a good amount of Western Diamondbacks, Crotalus atrox. It&#8217;s usually the same in Arizona &#8230; I expected a greater number of Prairie Rattlesnakes to show up, but I only saw one the whole time I was there (though I did [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://fieldherper.com/2011/01/21/diamondbacks-of-eddy-county-new-mexico/</link>
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		<title>Springtime in the White Tank Mountains</title>
		<description><![CDATA[If you&#8217;ve ever been to Phoenix, these are the mountains that extend the entire city, North to South, visible to the West. hdr-whitetanks0313102]]></description>
		<link>http://fieldherper.com/2011/01/17/springtime-in-the-white-tank-mountains/</link>
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		<title>Pink Mojave</title>
		<description><![CDATA[A faded-looking Mojave Rattlesnake, Crotalus scutulatus, from West of Phoenix. For comparison, here is a young, higher-contrast individual from the same area Your email:&#160;]]></description>
		<link>http://fieldherper.com/2011/01/14/pink-mojave/</link>
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		<title>Above the Cactus Line</title>
		<description><![CDATA[When driving to the Northern parts of Arizona, there&#8217;s seemingly a distinct line where the lage saguaros give way to chaparral grasslands. One of these place, just above where the cactus disappear, is one of my favorite close-to-home places to go. This picture is pretty typical of any evening throughout July and August.]]></description>
		<link>http://fieldherper.com/2011/01/12/above-the-cactus-line/</link>
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		<title>Yavapai County Blacktail</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Here&#8217;s one of a few blacktails I&#8217;ve been keeping track of in a mountain range North of Phoenix. These are, at this point I am safe to say, my favorite species of rattlesnake.]]></description>
		<link>http://fieldherper.com/2011/01/10/yavapai-county-blacktail/</link>
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		<title>Sidewinders, Big and Small</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Well, big is relative. The first snake is about as large as most Sonoran sidewinders, Crotalus cerastes cercobombus, will ever get &#8230; about 2 feet long. The latter is brand new to this world, about as long as a dollar bill and can easily coil up on a quarter. Your email:&#160;]]></description>
		<link>http://fieldherper.com/2011/01/07/sidewinders-big-and-small/</link>
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		<title>Tripod Shorthorned Lizard</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I found an old Greater Shorthorned Lizard, Phrynosoma hernandesi, with only three feet out running around in the Bradshaw mountains leaflitter. No snakes that day, but I was happy to come home with some pictures of one of my favorite lizards. Here&#8217;s another one for the hell of it. This one is from the Santa [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://fieldherper.com/2011/01/05/tripod-shorthorned-lizard/</link>
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		<title>Orange Creamcicle Speck</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Here&#8217;s a pretty, colorful Southwestern speckled rattlesnake, Crotalus mitchelli pyrrhus, from the mountains North of Wickenberg. Beautiful, but typical for this area.]]></description>
		<link>http://fieldherper.com/2011/01/03/orange-creamcicle-speck/</link>
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		<title>Chiricahua Mountaintop</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Here are a few snake-less photos from a winter hike in the Chiricahua mountains. The only reptiles I saw that day, aside from a beautiful red prairie rattlesnake that was hit by the car in front of me later on, were a big group of spiny lizards out catching some sun. The temperature up there [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://fieldherper.com/2010/12/29/chiricahua-mountaintop/</link>
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		<title>Hidalgo County, New Mexico</title>
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		<link>http://fieldherper.com/2010/12/27/hidalgo-county-new-mexico/</link>
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		<title>Rosy Boa From the Bagdad, Arizona Area</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Here&#8217;s an old one from my little point and shoot I started out with of an injured rosy boa, Lichanura trivirgata, from an area North of Phoenix. The poort hing had been clipped by a car, but seemed to be ok outright. We took it home to take it to a vet, but it unfortunately [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://fieldherper.com/2010/12/24/rosy-boa-from-the-bagdad-arizona-area/</link>
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		<title>The Monsoons Approach!</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Every year in Arizona, every herper waits and complains until this sight appears over the horizon. Rain! = Snakes!]]></description>
		<link>http://fieldherper.com/2010/12/22/the-monsoons-approach/</link>
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		<title>A Big Milipede</title>
		<description><![CDATA[This milipede was out cruising around a wash North of Phoenix on a cold, wet morning. Can any arthropologists out there help me out with the species?]]></description>
		<link>http://fieldherper.com/2010/12/20/a-big-milipede/</link>
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		<title>Desert Tortoise</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Here&#8217;s a gopher tortoise, Gopherus agassizii, out one night in the McDowell mountains. He had a ladyfriend nearby, and wasn&#8217;t too happy with my party&#8217;s meddling.]]></description>
		<link>http://fieldherper.com/2010/12/17/gopher-tortoise/</link>
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		<title>Almost A Face Spider</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I met this guy while walking around a desert wash one night looking for snakes. I was about 2 inches from having a spider friend on my nose when I saw it. Whew! Big and weird looking &#8230; the first of these I&#8217;ve seen. Entomologists? Any help with the ID?]]></description>
		<link>http://fieldherper.com/2010/12/15/almost-a-face-spider/</link>
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		<title>Ancient Graffiti</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Your email:&#160;]]></description>
		<link>http://fieldherper.com/2010/12/13/ancient-graffiti/</link>
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		<title>Wandering Gartersnake</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Here&#8217;s a pretty rust-colored wandering gartersnake from the Payson, Arizona area a few years ago.]]></description>
		<link>http://fieldherper.com/2010/12/10/wandering-gartersnake/</link>
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		<title>Neonate Gophersnake</title>
		<description><![CDATA[We found a bunch of these little guys crawling around the bushes on the South side of the Huachua mountains in Arizona one night. Cute little guys, and surprisingly large for snakes that must only be a few days or even hours old. This one was confused by the light and kept crawling up into [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://fieldherper.com/2010/12/08/neonate-gophersnake/</link>
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		<title>Tale of Two Toads</title>
		<description><![CDATA[This are a pair of the Woodhouse toads that live in a pond right off the main street through Sedona, Arizona. woodhouse toads Your email:&#160;]]></description>
		<link>http://fieldherper.com/2010/12/06/tale-of-two-toads/</link>
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		<description><![CDATA[While carrying one of our boats over land to avoid rapids while fishing the Teton river with my dad, we were lucky enough to find this Great Basin Rattlesnake, Crotalus oreganus lutosus, out for a morning stroll. I was able to get a few photos before being swarmed with ants.]]></description>
		<link>http://fieldherper.com/2010/12/03/1520/</link>
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		<title>Diamondback Waiting in Ambush</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I found this diamondback in an area very close to my home, and visit him on a regular basis. There are also a few others that share this hole, and they all stay pretty close to home. This was just before sun up in early July, hence the blue-ish light. Obviously I didn&#8217;t disturb him, [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://fieldherper.com/2010/12/01/diamondback-waiting-in-ambush/</link>
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		<title>Unexpected Arizona Black Rattlesnake</title>
		<description><![CDATA[There&#8217;s an area very close to Phoenix where I have been herping for many years, and we found something I never ever expected to see there, an Arizona Black Rattlesnake, Crotalus cerberus. This species is usually in the 4,000&#8242; and above range, with lower records being about  3,000 or so. This one was at just [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://fieldherper.com/2010/11/30/unexpected-arizona-black-rattlesnake/</link>
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		<title>Blue Eyed Speck</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Here&#8217;s one of the Southwestern Speckled Rattlesnakes, Crotalus mitchelli pyrrhus, from Yavapai County. In this location, they&#8217;re often this salmon pink and blue eyed combo, though the eyes aren&#8217;t truly blue &#8230; just grey, but look blue against the reddish background. Cool snakes.]]></description>
		<link>http://fieldherper.com/2010/11/26/blue-eyed-speck/</link>
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		<title>Sidewinders sidewinding all over the place</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Here are a few of the 20 or so sidewinders easily found in an evening and about an hour of the next, as can be done nearly any Spring evening in much of Arizona. Crotalus cerastes cercobombus Sonoran Sidewinder Sidewinding cerastes scoot scoot scoot side winder in arizona eyelashes Your email:&#160;]]></description>
		<link>http://fieldherper.com/2010/11/23/sidewinders-sidewinding-all-over-the-place/</link>
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		<title>One of your horns is crooked</title>
		<description><![CDATA[For some reason, these sidewinders (Crotalus cerastes) just look cooler when found on sunbleached gravel.]]></description>
		<link>http://fieldherper.com/2010/11/19/one-of-your-hornes-is-crooked/</link>
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		<title>My Favorite Species of Rattlesnake</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Here&#8217;s a really pretty desert phase Blacktailed Rattlesnake, Crotalus molossus, from a seldom herped area in Yavapai county. Every molossus I&#8217;ve seen in this area is a knock out, and this one is no exception. I was able to get in close for a photo and leave again without it waking up. Here&#8217;s where he [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://fieldherper.com/2010/11/16/my-favorite-species-of-rattlesnake/</link>
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		<title>A Baby Coachwhip</title>
		<description><![CDATA[We found this little guy out basking in the middle of a road &#8230; not a smart way to start life kid. Your email:&#160;]]></description>
		<link>http://fieldherper.com/2010/11/12/a-baby-coachwhip/</link>
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		<title>Big Scorpion</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I see these mouse-sized scorpions all over the place in the Sonoran desertscrub. I always stop to play with them at least once. Hadrarus arizonensis]]></description>
		<link>http://fieldherper.com/2010/11/08/big-scorpion/</link>
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		<title>Western Diamondback Rattlesnake (relocation)</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Here&#8217;s a typical Western Diamondback Rattlesnake, Crotalus atrox, from a relocation call to North Phoenix. Your email:&#160;]]></description>
		<link>http://fieldherper.com/2010/11/05/western-diamondback-rattlesnake-relocation/</link>
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		<title>Javelina Highway</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Tracks]]></description>
		<link>http://fieldherper.com/2010/11/02/javelina-highway/</link>
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		<title>The Largest Glossy Snake I&#8217;ve Ever Seen</title>
		<description><![CDATA[This Glossy Snake, Arizona elegans noctivaga, was especially large, maybe a third larger than the next closest individual. It was found in a relatively cool grassland, as well, out and about in the monsoons. This first photo should serve as comparison to the gophersnake-ish size of this beast.]]></description>
		<link>http://fieldherper.com/2010/10/29/the-largest-glossy-snake-ive-ever-seen/</link>
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		<title>Desert Lizards</title>
		<description><![CDATA[These are three very commonly seen lizards in the Sonoran scrublands, but couldn&#8217;t live more different livestyles than one another. Western Banded Gecko Greater Earless Lizard Desert Horned Lizard &#8230; and one more of that last guy, since he is awesome. Phrynosoma platyrhinos Your email:&#160;]]></description>
		<link>http://fieldherper.com/2010/10/25/desert-lizards/</link>
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		<title>Desert Nightsnake, at Night. Surprise.</title>
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		<link>http://fieldherper.com/2010/10/22/desert-nightsnake-at-night-surprise/</link>
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		<title>My First New Mexico Blacktail</title>
		<description><![CDATA[After a lot of searching &#8230; multiple weeks and hundreds of miles, I finally saw my first blacktailed rattlesnake, Crotalus molossus, in Eastern New Mexico.]]></description>
		<link>http://fieldherper.com/2010/10/19/my-first-new-mexico-blacktail/</link>
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		<title>Mojave Rattlesnake From Near Wickenberg, Arizona</title>
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		<link>http://fieldherper.com/2010/10/15/mojave-rattlesnake-from-near-wickenberg-arizona/</link>
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		<title>Yavapai County, Arizona</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Yavapai County, Arizona]]></description>
		<link>http://fieldherper.com/2010/10/11/yavapai-county-arizona/</link>
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		<title>The first of the monsoon season in Anthem, Arizona</title>
		<description><![CDATA[My friend Mark and I climbed out of a wash just before dark and got to see the first summer rain about to touch down in the desert North of Phoenix in July. All the snakes were just about to be climbing over each other to get out and get some moisture. I love August.]]></description>
		<link>http://fieldherper.com/2010/10/08/the-first-of-the-monsoon-season-in-anthem-arizona/</link>
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		<title>Sunset Sidewinder</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Crotalus cerastes cercobombus The sidewinders were out in force this night. We eventually just stopped pulling over for them, even though I had some out of state friends here to see them. sonoran sidewinder Sidewinder]]></description>
		<link>http://fieldherper.com/2010/10/05/sunset-sidewinder/</link>
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		<title>Sonoran Coralsnake On The Crawl</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Here&#8217;s a sonoran coralsnake that I got some bad cell phone video of, out crawling around on a warm August night.]]></description>
		<link>http://fieldherper.com/2010/10/01/sonoran-coralsnake-on-the-crawl/</link>
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		<title>Red-Sided Gartersnake from near Eugene, Oregon</title>
		<description><![CDATA[This is a bit of an older picture, from my last trip to Oregon a few years ago. I went to walk around a field with my grandpa and we found this old red-sided gartersnake, who was likewise interested in us. He just sat in one spot with his head held high while I took [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://fieldherper.com/2010/09/27/red-sided-gartersnake-from-near-eugene-oregon/</link>
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		<title>Basking Springtime Sidewinder</title>
		<description><![CDATA[In April, my wife Kelly and I had a great night West of Phoenix, and found over 20 live snakes in just over 3 hours. This is the first of the evening, a Sonoran Sidewinder, Crotalus cerastes cercobombus, soaking in the sun before the evening activities begin. We had pulled off the road to catch [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://fieldherper.com/2010/09/24/basking-springtime-sidewinder/</link>
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		<title>Crotalus atrox</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Diamondback rattlesnake Your email:&#160;]]></description>
		<link>http://fieldherper.com/2010/09/22/crotalus-atrox/</link>
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		<title>Gravid Western Diamondback</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Here&#8217;s a gravid (pregnant) female Western Diamondback Rattlesnake, Crotalus atrox, found by some friends and I on a night hike in early August. Your email:&#160;]]></description>
		<link>http://fieldherper.com/2010/09/20/gravid-western-diamondback/</link>
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		<title>Diamondback Rattlesnakes of Yavapai County</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Here&#8217;s a nice big diamondback I found on one of my favorite drives through Yavapai County, Arizona. Crotalus atrox diamondback diamondback Your email:&#160;]]></description>
		<link>http://fieldherper.com/2010/09/17/diamondback-rattlesnakes-of-yavapai-county/</link>
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		<title>Western Diamondback Relocation from a Phoenix Home</title>
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		<link>http://fieldherper.com/2010/09/13/western-diamondback-relocation-from-a-phoenix-home/</link>
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		<title>Baby Blacktail in the New River Mountains</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I found this young Black-Tailed Rattlesnake, Crotalus molossus, in the New River mountains, in a pretty amazing spot that also is home to a good many Crotalus cerberus. This is also the youngest molossus I&#8217;ve ever seen in the wild. For only having two rattle segments, it was surprisingly large. Crotalus molossus Crotalus molossus Blacktail [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://fieldherper.com/2010/09/10/baby-blacktail-in-the-new-river-mountains/</link>
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		<title>Canyon Treefrogs</title>
		<description><![CDATA[A few examples of Hyla arenicolor. Hyla arenicolor Submerged canyon treefrog Camouflaged Canyon Treefrog Your email:&#160;]]></description>
		<link>http://fieldherper.com/2010/09/08/canyon-treefrogs/</link>
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		<title>Chihuahuan Hook-Nosed Snake</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Here&#8217;s my first Chihuahuan Hook-Nosed Snake, Gyalopion canum. I&#8217;ve only ever seen two, and I&#8217;m apparently lucky, as I know of a few guys that have been doing this a lot longer than me that have never seen one. They&#8217;re small fossorial snakes that, like the Sonoran Coralsnake, defends itself by scaring away predators with [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://fieldherper.com/2010/09/06/chihuahuan-hook-nosed-snake/</link>
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		<title>Diamondback in Yavapai County</title>
		<description><![CDATA[This is the one and only living Western Diamondback, Crotalus atrox, I&#8217;ve seen in a mountainous area of Yavapai county. Nothing striking, but still clean and attractive nonetheless. Diamondback Your email:&#160;]]></description>
		<link>http://fieldherper.com/2010/09/03/diamondback-in-yavapai-county/</link>
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		<title>Teenie Turtle</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Here&#8217;s a really tiny Sonora Mud Turtle, Kinosternon sonoriense, from a muddy cattle pond near the AZ/Mexico border. Sonora Mud Turtle Tiny Turtle Turtle]]></description>
		<link>http://fieldherper.com/2010/08/31/teenie-turtle/</link>
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		<title>Bright Orange Speckled Rattlesnake</title>
		<description><![CDATA[A Southwestern Speckled Rattlesnake, Crotalus mitchelli pyrrhus, from Maricopa county. The color is amazing, but not atypical for this species in this area. Crotalus mitchelli pyrrhus ] Speckled Rattlesnake Your email:&#160;]]></description>
		<link>http://fieldherper.com/2010/08/27/bright-orange-speckled-rattlesnake/</link>
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		<title>Maricopa County Sunset</title>
		<description><![CDATA[chillier than it looks]]></description>
		<link>http://fieldherper.com/2010/08/23/maricopa-county-sunset/</link>
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		<title>Tiger Rattlesnake from Santa Cruz County</title>
		<description><![CDATA[This is one of the more rarely seen rattlesnakes in Arizona, the Tiger Rattlesnake, Crotalus tigris. This is one of two I saw in 2009 in the South East of the state, this one being near Nogales, only a few miles form the border of Mexico. While we were photographing this guy, a border patrol [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://fieldherper.com/2010/08/20/tiger-rattlesnake-from-santa-cruz-county/</link>
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		<title>Western Diamondbacks near Congress, Arizona</title>
		<description><![CDATA[We found this guy on the crawl mid-morning on an overcast, warm day in April. Crotalus atrox &#8230; about an hour and a half later, we found another one on the move near a river. He posed nicely for us. Diamondback Rattlesnake in Yavapai County, Arizona Crotalus atrox We also found this moth hanging out [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://fieldherper.com/2010/08/17/western-diamondback-near-congress-arizona/</link>
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		<title>Teenage Muddy Biting Turtle</title>
		<description><![CDATA[This little dude didn&#8217;t like being captured. Fingers were nearly pinched. nom Your email:&#160;]]></description>
		<link>http://fieldherper.com/2010/08/13/teenage-muddy-biting-turtle/</link>
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		<title>Early Morning atrox</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Here&#8217;s a Western Diamondback Rattlesnake on the move just after sunup in April, 2010. The air temperature was just over 60 degrees. atrox diamondback rattlesnake Your email:&#160;]]></description>
		<link>http://fieldherper.com/2010/08/10/early-morning-atrox/</link>
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		<title>Mojave Rattlesnakes in the Western Maricopa County Flats</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Second only to the sidewinder in encounters, the mojave rattlesnake, Crotalus scutulatus, is all over the place in the springtime in the flats of Western Maricopa county. Here are a couple of typical specimens. Crotalus scutulatus C-scutulatus-2-041510 C-scutulatus-3-041510]]></description>
		<link>http://fieldherper.com/2010/08/06/mojave-rattlesnakes-in-the-western-maricopa-county-flats/</link>
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		<title>Sidewinder</title>
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		<link>http://fieldherper.com/2010/08/04/sidewinder/</link>
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		<title>My First Ridge-Nosed Rattlesnake from 2007</title>
		<description><![CDATA[This was unfortunate &#8230; the first Arizona Ridge-Nosed Rattlesnake, Crotalus willardi, I ever saw was just hit by a car and slowly dying. I took a bad photo of the undamaged end and left it to let things run their course. Crotalus willardi]]></description>
		<link>http://fieldherper.com/2010/08/02/my-first-ridge-nosed-rattlesnake-from-2007/</link>
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		<title>Western Diamondback Rattlesnake</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Here&#8217;s yet another pretty typical-looking Western Diamondback Rattlesnake, Crotalus atrox, out and about in the Spring. diamondback Your email:&#160;]]></description>
		<link>http://fieldherper.com/2010/07/30/western-diamondback-rattlesnake-3/</link>
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		<title>Western Banded Gecko</title>
		<description><![CDATA[We woke up a Western Banded Gecko, Coleonyx variegatus, for some photos with the Spring flowers in the White Tank mountains. He&#8217;s obviously not too happy to for the unnatural photos of a nocturnal lizard out in the bright light. It looks nice, but we both know better. Coleonyx variegatus Here are a couple more [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://fieldherper.com/2010/07/26/western-banded-gecko-2/</link>
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		<title>Iron-Cross Blister Beetle Fiesta</title>
		<description><![CDATA[We found a bunch of these iron cross blister beetles clustering in the low grass early one morning while photographing some sidewinders. iron cross blister beetle blister beetle party time]]></description>
		<link>http://fieldherper.com/2010/07/23/iron-cross-blister-beetle-fiesta/</link>
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		<title>Diamondback</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Western Diamondback Rattlesnake Your email:&#160;]]></description>
		<link>http://fieldherper.com/2010/07/19/diamondback/</link>
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		<title>Phoenix Snake Removal</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;ve started a new venture, aimed to use whatever knowledge I&#8217;ve gained about rattlesnakes in the Phoenix area for the benefit of the snakes, the people who encounter them. I plan on starting small, just an outlet to perform snake-related activities that don&#8217;t fit in on this site, which is dedicated to field herping. Field [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://fieldherper.com/2010/07/16/phoenix-snake-removal/</link>
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		<title>A Black &amp; Gold Mountain-Phase Blacktail</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Here&#8217;s a beautiful blacktailed rattlesnake, Crotalus molossus, we found near the Mexican border with Arizona. The lichen-covered rocks made a really cool background. molossus Blacktail Crotalus molossus blacktail molossus Your email:&#160;]]></description>
		<link>http://fieldherper.com/2010/07/16/a-black-gold-mountain-phase-blacktail/</link>
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		<title>Urban Mojave Rattlesnake</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Kelly and I went for a little walk with our friend Jeff into a wash WELL within the city limits of &#8230; Peoria or Surprise, or whatever old people haven it was. This mojave rattlesnake, Crotalus scutulatus, was nice enough to pose for some shots against the sunset over the White Tank mountains. If they [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://fieldherper.com/2010/07/12/urban-mojave-rattlesnake/</link>
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		<title>The One and Only Banded Rock Rattlesnake of 2009</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I really didn&#8217;t spend any time looking for lepidus in 2009. I went on a half hearted hike in the worst part of June, just being in the area for a different reason, and then looked again one morning later in the year. My friend Kris found this cool-looking little guy out on the crawl [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://fieldherper.com/2010/07/09/the-one-and-only-banded-rock-rattlesnake-of-2009/</link>
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		<title>Western Diamondback in the Superstition Mountains</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Western Diamond-Backed Rattlesnake, Crotalus atrox, in the North end of the Superstition Mountains in March. Crotalus atrox]]></description>
		<link>http://fieldherper.com/2010/07/07/western-diamondback-in-the-superstition-mountains/</link>
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		<title>Great Plains Toad, Bufo cognatus</title>
		<description><![CDATA[This is a little tiny toad, new to the world of legs. Bufo cognatus]]></description>
		<link>http://fieldherper.com/2010/07/05/great-plains-toad-bufo-cognatus/</link>
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		<title>A Western Diamondback from Apache Junction, Arizona</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Here&#8217;s a Diamondback I got on a relocation call in 2007, from a home in Apache Junction, AZ. It was released about a mile away, a little closer to the river. This is right about the time I really started to realize that I like taking pictures of snakes, rather than just finding them and [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://fieldherper.com/2010/07/02/a-western-diamondback-from-apache-junction-arizona/</link>
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		<title>Arizona Black Rattlesnake right after a shed.</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I watched my Arizona Black Rattlesnake shed his skin late last night, and this morning took him out for some photos with his fresh, new scales. My wife Kelly took the pictures, and got some of the amazing iridescence in the morning light. This is truly the most beautiful rattlesnake I&#8217;ve ever seen &#8230; awesome [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://fieldherper.com/2010/06/28/arizona-black-rattlesnake-right-after-a-shed/</link>
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		<title>Hiking the Agua Fria River</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I had some friends in town to find rattlesnakes in April, and one of the locations we hit was the Agua Fria river. The various small canyons and rock cuts, along with the year-round supply of water, make a great habitat for all kinds of desert animals. We found 3 rattlesnakes this particular morning, and [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://fieldherper.com/2010/06/25/hiking-the-agua-fria-river/</link>
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		<title>Sonoran Whipsnake in the Chiricahua Mountains</title>
		<description><![CDATA[SONORAN WHIPSNAKE Coluber bilineatus whipsnake in arizona Sonoran Whip Snake Your email:&#160;]]></description>
		<link>http://fieldherper.com/2010/06/21/sonoran-whipsnake-in-the-chiricahua-mountains/</link>
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		<title>Western Shovel-Nosed Snake</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Here&#8217;s one of two Western Shovel-Nosed Snakes,  Chionactis occipitalis, from the intergrade zone, where three subspecies interbreed and any individual may show signs of two or more. Small snakes that dig around in the sandy soil looking for centipedes and other bugs. Shovelnose Snake]]></description>
		<link>http://fieldherper.com/2010/06/18/western-shovel-nosed-snake/</link>
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		<title>A Night in the Superstition Mountains. Diamondback, Blacktails, and a Lyresnake</title>
		<description><![CDATA[My wife and I went on a quick trip to the Superstition Mountains and had a little success. We spent maybe the most productive hiking hour at Tortilla Flats eating hamburgers, which had to be done eventually. I&#8217;ve driven past the place more times than I can count, but I&#8217;ve always been on my way [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://fieldherper.com/2010/06/14/a-night-in-the-superstition-mountains-diamondback-blacktails-and-a-lyresnake/</link>
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		<title>Scenery and Scorpions</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Here are some of the other things I point my camera at while out looking for scaly stuff. Stripe-Tailed Scorpion, Hoffmannius spinigerus Stripe Tailed Scorpion Harcuvar mountains, on a chilly snake-less afternoon. Harcuvars The foothills North of my home in Anthem, Arizona. Anthem An outcrop near New River, Arizona New River Rocks &#8230; and the [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://fieldherper.com/2010/06/11/scenery-and-scorpions/</link>
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		<title>Crotalus willardi</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Another Ridge-Nosed Rattlesnake in Arizona from 2008. Crotalus willardi ridgenose rattlesnake in arizona]]></description>
		<link>http://fieldherper.com/2010/06/07/crotalus-willardi/</link>
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		<title>Desert Nightsnake</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Hypsiglena chlorophaea]]></description>
		<link>http://fieldherper.com/2010/06/04/desert-nightsnake-2/</link>
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		<title>A Typical Long-Nosed Snake</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Here&#8217;s a typical Long-Nosed Snake, Rhinocheilus lecontei, out and about. I see a billion of these every year and photograph very few of them. If they&#8217;d hold still for a few seconds I&#8217;d take a lot more pictures of them. Regardless, I always photograph maybe 20 a year. Longnose Your email:&#160;]]></description>
		<link>http://fieldherper.com/2010/05/31/a-typical-long-nosed-snake/</link>
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		<title>My Wife :)</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I get asked from time to time what my wife thinks about my hobby. Well, Kelly&#8217;s often right there with me.  Ten years ago, if you would have told me that I&#8217;d eventually be out chasing animals around in the desert with the girl I love I&#8217;d never have believed you. We&#8217;ve been married for [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://fieldherper.com/2010/05/24/my-wife/</link>
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		<title>My First lepidus</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I was looking through old stuff today and found a photo of my very first ever Banded Rock Rattlesnake, Crotalus lepidus klauberi. I&#8217;ve only seen 3 at night, this being the first. I love these snakes. Crotalus lepidus klauberi Your email:&#160;]]></description>
		<link>http://fieldherper.com/2010/05/21/my-first-lepidus/</link>
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		<title>I Keep Promising Myself I Won&#8217;t Photograph These Anymore</title>
		<description><![CDATA[&#8230; but it never works out. On about every trip I take a colorful Common Side-Blotched Lizard ends up on my CF card. As the name implies, these guys are about everywhere you look on warm mornings. Uta]]></description>
		<link>http://fieldherper.com/2010/05/17/i-keep-promising-myself-i-wont-photograph-these-anymore/</link>
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		<title>Amblypigid, Meet My Nightsnake</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Big creepy arachnid: Amblypigids Big creepy arachnid with a nightsnake: desert dance party 3000]]></description>
		<link>http://fieldherper.com/2010/05/14/vinegaroon-meet-my-nightsnake/</link>
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		<title>Tarantula</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Here&#8217;s a big tarantula I found crawling around near our camp one morning near Payson, Arizona. One of these days I&#8217;m going to have to learn how to identify these other than &#8220;those brown ones&#8221; and &#8220;those blackish ones&#8221;. Tarantula]]></description>
		<link>http://fieldherper.com/2010/05/10/tarantula/</link>
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		<title>R.I.P. My Hat</title>
		<description><![CDATA[My hat took one for the team for the last time. He lived a rich life, on top of my head, soaking up sweat and keeping my forehead burn-free. He is survived by my hook and loving camerabag. SO Sad]]></description>
		<link>http://fieldherper.com/2010/05/07/r-i-p-my-hat/</link>
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		<title>A Plateau Fence Lizard Threat</title>
		<description><![CDATA[This little Plateau Fence Lizard, Sceloporus tristichus, was on a branch doing pushups at us near our camp one morning. Tough little guy, but it didn&#8217;t work. Plateau Fence Lizard]]></description>
		<link>http://fieldherper.com/2010/05/03/a-plateau-fence-lizard-threat/</link>
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		<title>Rock Rattlesnake at Night</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Here&#8217;s one of the first Banded Rock Rattlesnakes, Crotalus lepidus klauberi, I ever found, out on the crawl at night near the Huachuca Mountains. klaub Your email:&#160;]]></description>
		<link>http://fieldherper.com/2010/04/30/rock-rattlesnake-at-night/</link>
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		<title>Pleasing Fungus Beetle</title>
		<description><![CDATA[This is totally not a reptile, but the cool blue color and silly name makes me want to post it. Pleasing Fungus Beetle]]></description>
		<link>http://fieldherper.com/2010/04/26/pleasing-fungus-beetle/</link>
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		<title>Mojave</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Crotalus scutulatus]]></description>
		<link>http://fieldherper.com/2010/04/23/mojave/</link>
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		<title>Stop! Gila Monster!</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;ve heard that yelled a total of 5 times in my life, twice to myself, by myself. In 2009 I found 4 gila monsters, and all were hard to photograph. These guys are protected, and you can&#8217;t bother them in any way. You pretty much have to get your ass out of the car and [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://fieldherper.com/2010/04/19/stop-gila-monster/</link>
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		<title>Hatchling Zebra-Tailed Lizard</title>
		<description><![CDATA[We found this baby zebra tailed lizard catching the last bit of sun one evening right in the middle of Surprise, AZ. These are one of my favorite lizards, and he sat nice and still for a picture. Zebra Tailed Lizard Your email:&#160;]]></description>
		<link>http://fieldherper.com/2010/04/16/hatchling-zebra-tailed-lizard/</link>
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		<title>Snakes of the Night</title>
		<description><![CDATA[If I had a shitty hair band in the 80&#8242;s, that&#8217;s what I&#8217;d name it. Ironically the actual Night Snake, Hypsiglena chlorophaea, is tiny and harmless. They&#8217;ve got a little venom, but don&#8217;t even worry about it unless you&#8217;re a lizard. Here are a few: Night Snake SNAKES OF THE NIYEEIIIITE!!! Your email:&#160;]]></description>
		<link>http://fieldherper.com/2010/04/12/snakes-of-the-night/</link>
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		<title>Sonoran Collared Lizard &#8211; My First</title>
		<description><![CDATA[In March, Diego put his lizard catching skills to use on this small female Sonoran Collared Lizard, Crotaphytus nebruis, in the Maricopa Mountains of Arizona. It took some work, but she eventually calmed down for some photos. Sonoran Collared Lizard Sonoran Collared Lizard Your email:&#160;]]></description>
		<link>http://fieldherper.com/2010/04/09/sonoran-collared-lizard-my-first/</link>
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		<title>How Many Canyon Treefrogs Can You See?</title>
		<description><![CDATA[canyon treefrogs Email me and I&#8217;ll tell you if you&#8217;re right.]]></description>
		<link>http://fieldherper.com/2010/04/05/how-many-canyon-treefrogs-can-you-see/</link>
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		<title>The First Snake of 2010 &#8211; A Western Diamondback Rattlesnake</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I found a Western Diamondback Rattlesnake, Crotalus atrox, a couple of miles from my home in Anthem, Arizona. We&#8217;ve had a rather wet year, so temperatures have remained cool and I haven&#8217;t seen as much in the early part of the year as I did in 2009, but this year will be a killer! Lots [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://fieldherper.com/2010/04/02/the-first-snake-of-2010-a-western-diamondback-rattlesnake/</link>
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		<title>A Young Ridge-Nosed Rattlesnake in Arizona</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The Ridge-Nosed Rattlesnake, Crotalus willardi, is probably the most sought-after rattlesnake in the country. They&#8217;re small and hard to find unless you know what you&#8217;re doing, which I officially don&#8217;t. I&#8217;ve seen less than 10 total. They&#8217;re awesome little snakes with a look that seems surprising they&#8217;d be in the US at all, with their [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://fieldherper.com/2010/03/29/a-young-ridge-nosed-rattlesnake-in-arizona/</link>
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		<title>An Exceptionally Green C. lepidus</title>
		<description><![CDATA[My wife and I found this extremely green Crotalus lepidus klauberi right at noon in the Huachuca mountains. It&#8217;s also the largest klaub I&#8217;ve ever seen. I still have yet to get back to this particular pile of rocks to look for more like him &#8230; maybe next year. lepidus klauberi Your email:&#160;]]></description>
		<link>http://fieldherper.com/2010/03/26/an-exceptionally-green-c-lepidus/</link>
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		<title>A Western Banded Gecko, The Most Squished Animal on Earth</title>
		<description><![CDATA[These little geckos are all over the roads most of the year and it&#8217;s easy to forget how cool they are and get out of the car to chase them around to get some pictures. This is a Western Banded Gecko, Coleonyx variegatus, one of the only geckos with eyelids. Their skin is covered with [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://fieldherper.com/2010/03/22/a-western-banded-gecko-the-most-squished-animal-on-earth/</link>
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		<title>Book Review: A Guide to the Rock Rattlesnakes of The United States</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;m planning a month-long trip to New Mexico this Spring, and the release of this book couldn&#8217;t have been timed better. A Guide to the Rock Rattlesnakes of the United Snakes, by Michael Price, got here a few days ago and I&#8217;m glad I bought it. First, this is, as Mr. Price put it, &#8220;intended [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://fieldherper.com/2010/03/22/book-review-a-guide-to-the-rock-rattlesnakes-of-the-united-states/</link>
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		<title>2 Klaubs from the Huachuca Mountains</title>
		<description><![CDATA[A few old pics of pretty standard looking Crotalus lepidus klauberi from the Huachuca range in Arizona. lep klaub lep]]></description>
		<link>http://fieldherper.com/2010/03/19/2-klaubs-from-the-huachuca-mountains/</link>
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		<title>Big Fat Tiger Rattlesnake in the Superstition Mountains</title>
		<description><![CDATA[This is the second live Tiger Rattlesnake, Crotalus tigris, I ever found in Arizona. I was a moron and forgot to load up my headlamp and camera with new batteries, so had to do a bit of a shuffle to get him to hold still while I got my crap together. These snakes are awesome [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://fieldherper.com/2010/03/15/big-fat-tiger-rattlesnake-in-the-superstition-mountains/</link>
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		<title>A Trio of Mojave Rattlesnakes</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Here are 3 typical-looking Mojave Rattlesnakes, Crotalus scutulatus, in Arizona. This is one of the more common snakes I encounter in the wet months of the year. rattlesnake in az Crotalus scutulatus rattlesnakes in az]]></description>
		<link>http://fieldherper.com/2010/03/12/a-trio-of-mojave-rattlesnakes/</link>
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		<title>A Young Striped Whipsnake Mid-Shed</title>
		<description><![CDATA[My wife and I found this baby Striped Whipsnake, Coluber taeniatus, under some asphalt shingles out in the middle of the woods for some reason. His clouded eyes, filled with fluid to help him slip out of his old skin, made this already aggressive species even more pissy. His close cousin Coluber bilineatus has had [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://fieldherper.com/2010/03/09/a-young-striped-whipsnake-mid-shed/</link>
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		<title>One Pissed Off Rattlesnake</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I was out on the last day in August with my good herping friend Kris Haas dodging flash floods and racking up the snakes when we found a neonate Mojave Rattlesnake, Crotalus scutulatus, making his way across the road. I slammed on the brakes, dropped my window, and sent us backwards to confirm the snake [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://fieldherper.com/2010/03/05/one-pissed-off-rattlesnake/</link>
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		<title>Watch Your Step</title>
		<description><![CDATA[A young Mojave Rattlesnake, Crotalus scutulatus, hiding in the grass in Southern Arizona. If there were any snake in Arizona that I would step on if I had to, this species would not be it. Mojave Rattlesnake]]></description>
		<link>http://fieldherper.com/2010/03/02/watch-your-step/</link>
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		<title>A Big Great Basin Rattlesnake from Bonneville County, Idaho</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Here&#8217;s a rarity for this website and me in general, a rattlesnake found far from Arizona. I went up to my 10 year highschool reunion in 2007, but ended up spending most of my time in the hills surrounding my hometown armed with a lot more knowledge about how to find the local rattlesnakes. This [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://fieldherper.com/2010/02/26/a-big-great-basin-rattlesnake-from-bonneville-county-idaho/</link>
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		<title>A Typical Desert-Phase Blacktailed Rattlesnake from Arizona&#8217;s Superstition Mountains</title>
		<description><![CDATA[This subadult Black-Tailed Rattlesnake, Crotalus molossus, is the typical low-contrast brown seen in the Sonoran desertscrub areas of most of Arizona. In many areas this can take a green, orange, or even pinkish tint, but this one is pretty straight brown. Nonetheless, their pattern is one of the best looking, in my opinion, of the [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://fieldherper.com/2010/02/23/a-typical-desert-phase-blacktailed-rattlesnake-from-arizonas-superstition-mountains/</link>
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		<title>A Pair of Sidewinders</title>
		<description><![CDATA[In late April and early May, I can&#8217;t even say how many times I&#8217;ve found a sidewinder while another snake is mid-capture. This one was a little different in that they were right on top of eachother. I&#8217;m unable to sight-sex this species, so I can&#8217;t say whether it was mating behavior or just coincidental [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://fieldherper.com/2010/02/19/a-pair-of-sidewinders/</link>
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		<title>Near-Perfect Camouflaged Sidewinder</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Here&#8217;s another great example of the sneaky camouflage capabilities of one of the most commonly seen rattlesnakes in the sandy desertscrub, the Sonoran Sidewinder, Crotalus cerastes cercobombus. I found probably 200 of these guys in 2009 alone, and still stop for almost every one. Most of the pictures just go into my collection and never [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://fieldherper.com/2010/02/16/near-perfect-camouflaged-sidewinder/</link>
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		<title>Zuul is about to change his clothes</title>
		<description><![CDATA[This isn&#8217;t a field photo, but still pretty cool. It&#8217;s my big all-black Arizona Black Rattlesnake, Crotalus cerberus, with white eyes as he prepares to shed his skin. Zuul &#8216;Your email:&#160;]]></description>
		<link>http://fieldherper.com/2010/02/12/zuul-is-about-to-change-his-clothes/</link>
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		<title>A Clean Cochise County Diamondback</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Nothing particularly special about this female Western Diamondback Rattlesnake, Crotalus atrox, but I liked how clean the pattern is. Especially when compared to the dirty, speckled coloration of the atrox near my home, this one looks very nice. Rattlesnake in Arizona Your email:&#160;]]></description>
		<link>http://fieldherper.com/2010/02/10/a-clean-cochise-county-diamondback/</link>
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		<title>A Rare Glossy Snake Sighting</title>
		<description><![CDATA[In 2009 I only saw 3 Desert Glossy Snakes, Arizona elegans eburnata. From a distance or at speed they look superficially like gophersnakes, but that long nose and almost rat-snake looking face makes for a good find. They&#8217;re really cool snakes, and I really wish I found more of them. Every one so far looks [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://fieldherper.com/2010/02/05/a-rare-glossy-snake-sighting/</link>
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		<title>Black-Necked Gartersnakes</title>
		<description><![CDATA[In 2009, for some reason, I found more black-necked garternskaes, Thamnophis cyrtopsis, than I&#8217;ve seen in all years previous combined. Most were in predictable locations, but a few were the last thing I thought I&#8217;d find, being several miles from the nearest reliable source of water. Here are a few. Gartersnake in Arizona Blacknecked Gartersnake [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://fieldherper.com/2010/02/02/black-necked-gartersnakes/</link>
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		<title>Longnose Snakes</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Here are some pictures of a very common local snake, the long-nosed snake, Rhinocheilus lecontei. They have an enlarged snout (imagine that) that they use to dig out lizard eggs and sleeping whiptail lizards. These are often out when other snakes don&#8217;t want to be, for some reason, so seeing one of these as the [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://fieldherper.com/2010/01/29/longnose-snakes/</link>
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		<title>Sonoran Gophersnakes</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Here are a few of the Sonoran Gophersnakes, Pituophis catenifer affinis,  I found during a few days of August in 2009. This is one of the most common snakes we have in Arizona, and I see them quite often. I have two in my collection as well, which were both called in to the AHA [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://fieldherper.com/2010/01/26/sonoran-gophersnakes-2/</link>
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		<title>Chihuahuan Nightsnake</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Here&#8217;s a neonate Chihuahuan nightsnake, Hypsiglena jani, a mildly venomous snake with eliptical pupils that is pretty common. A few years ago these were all just nightsnakes, but were split into three separate species. So &#8230; I guess this is a lifer for me, unless you count the probable jani I found near Payson awhile [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://fieldherper.com/2010/01/22/chihuahuan-nightsnake/</link>
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		<title>High Altitude Lizard</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I was laying on my back in wet leaves high in the Chiricuahua mountains, hat over my eyes, taking a little break, when I heard some noise to my left. There was a Madrean Alligator Lizard,  Elgaria kingii, cruising around looking for bugs. I used to catch similar lizards as a kid in Oregon, and [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://fieldherper.com/2010/01/19/high-altitude-lizard/</link>
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		<title>Some Mojave Rattlesnakes from Eastern Arizona / Western New Mexico</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Here are a few of the many mojave rattlesnakes, Crotalus scutulatus, I found in a 3 day period in August, 2009. The species has an incredible amount of variation throughout its range, and these individuals are no exception. The 4 hour drive to this location shows quite a bit of difference between the light greenish [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://fieldherper.com/2010/01/15/some-mojave-rattlesnakes-from-eastern-arizona-western-new-mexico/</link>
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		<title>Does Lime Keep Snakes Away?</title>
		<description><![CDATA[No. Lime does not keep snakes away. Although your uncle may swear it does, it doesn&#8217;t. I realize a guy at work saw it with his own eyes, but he&#8217;s lying to you. There is not a powder or liquid you can pour around your property that will repel snakes. Snakes come to your property [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://fieldherper.com/2010/01/13/does-lime-keep-snakes-away/</link>
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		<title>My First Twin-Spotted Rattlesnake</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The twin-spotted rattlesnake, Crotalus pricei, was the last of the 3 small montaine species of rattlesnake I have found. I&#8217;ve heard they are relatively easy to find if you&#8217;re in the right area, and I knew the right area, so I wasn&#8217;t in a particular hurry to find one. The day finally came and I [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://fieldherper.com/2010/01/12/my-first-twin-spotted-rattlesnake/</link>
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		<title>Black-Tailed Rattlesnake from the Chiricuahua Mountains</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I found this Black-Tailed Rattlesnake, Crotalus molossus, while hiking along a streambed with my sister in August of 2009. It was the first she had seen, unless you count the unfortunate roadkill we found near Douglass the night before. I love this species; it completely made our afternoon to find this guy. Crotalus molossus Blacktail [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://fieldherper.com/2010/01/08/black-tailed-rattlesnake-from-the-chiricuahua-mountains/</link>
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		<title>A Beautiful Arizona Black Rattlesnake</title>
		<description><![CDATA[My friend Diego had never seen an Arizona Black Rattlesnake, Crotalus cerberus, before. I&#8217;d only seen a handful myself, and my position just North of Phoenix puts me in a good place to see a lot of them, if I&#8217;d just get up there and try it out. We decided to meet up and try [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://fieldherper.com/2010/01/05/a-beautiful-arizona-black-rattlesnake/</link>
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		<title>Finding the Hopi Rattlesnake, Part 5</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Continued from part 1, part 2, part 3 &#38; part 4. Final pictures of the series, the first Hopi Rattlesnakes, Crotalus viridis viridis, formally Crotalus viridis nuntius, found by Kelly and myself in the summer of 2009. Crotalus viridis C. viridis viridis Hopi Rattlesnake]]></description>
		<link>http://fieldherper.com/2009/12/29/finding-the-hopi-rattlesnake-part-5/</link>
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		<title>Lubber Grasshoppers</title>
		<description><![CDATA[In the Fall of 2008, South Eastern Arizona was absolutely flooded with these huge lubber grasshoppers. I first saw a few crossing a road and thought that they were male tarantulas out and about looking for mates, which is much more common in my experience. By the time I had returned to the area a [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://fieldherper.com/2009/12/22/lubber-grasshoppers/</link>
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		<title>Are You Threatening Me?</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I respect lizards. Unlike cowardly snakes that try and escape immediately upon discovery, many lizards will go just a few feet and turn around to engage me in the most terrifying aspect of their being: pushups. Oh the humanity. Here&#8217;s a Plateau Fence Lizard, Sceloporous tristichus, upon being discovered. Plateau Fence Lizard &#8230; and then, [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://fieldherper.com/2009/12/18/are-you-threatening-me/</link>
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		<title>Whoops</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I win]]></description>
		<link>http://fieldherper.com/2009/12/15/whoops/</link>
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		<title>My First Desert Patchnose Snake</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Here&#8217;s the first Desert Patchnose Snake (Salvadora hexalepis hexalepis) I encountered in the wild from several years ago. He appropriately bit the hell out of my finger and escaped up a sheer dirt wall before I could get any better photos. I love these guys; they&#8217;re like mini-coachwhips. Salvadora hexalepis]]></description>
		<link>http://fieldherper.com/2009/12/11/my-first-desert-patchnose-snake/</link>
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		<title>Stripe-Tail Scorpion</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I know this isn&#8217;t a lizard, but I still take pictures of them from time to time when things are slow. It&#8217;s (I believe so anyway) a stripe-tail scorpion (Vaejovis spinigeris), one of the more common scorpions I run into when flipping stuff over herping. The sting from these guys is maybe a little painful, but [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://fieldherper.com/2009/12/08/stripe-tail-scorpion/</link>
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		<title>Round-Tailed Horned Lizards</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Here are a few pictures of one of my favorite Arizona-native lizards, the Round-Tailed Horned Lizard (Phrynosoma modestum). They always look so damn serious, which is even funnier when you meet one in person. Sorry for the poor photos &#8230; these were taken quite awhile ago before I had decided to get into this as [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://fieldherper.com/2009/12/04/round-tailed-horned-lizards/</link>
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		<title>Two Toads</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Here are a couple of common toads found in abundance when the rain finally comes to the Arizona summer. This first is a large Red-Spotted Toad, Bufo punctatus, found while looking for hopi rattlesnakes in Central Arizona. The latter is a young Sonoran Desert Toad, Bufo alvarius, found with a 97 F air temperature and [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://fieldherper.com/2009/12/01/two-toads/</link>
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		<title>Finding the Hopi Rattlesnake, Part 4</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Continued from part 1, part 2 and part 3 Hopi Rattlesnake, Crotalus viridis. Hopi Rattlesnake Hopi Rattlesnake Crotalus viridis viridis]]></description>
		<link>http://fieldherper.com/2009/11/16/finding-hope-part-4/</link>
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		<title>A Young Black-Tailed Rattlesnake</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Here is the youngest, smallest Black-Tailed Rattlesnake (Crotalus molossus) I have ever seen. It was found North of my home in Anthem, Arizona, in a place where I had previously not seen this species. It&#8217;s a great looking snake for this area. Crotalus molossus Crotalus molossus Black-Tailed Rattlesnake &#8230; and an HDR for the hell [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://fieldherper.com/2009/11/13/a-young-black-tailed-rattlesnake/</link>
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		<title>Sonoran Whipsnake</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Sonoran whipsnakes (Coluber bilineatus) are cool. They&#8217;re smart, fast, diurnal snakes that are difficult to photograph simply because it&#8217;s hard to get close enough to the things to do it without them instantly disappearing into the brush &#8230; and if you do actually manage to get your hands on one, you&#8217;re going to be bleeding [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://fieldherper.com/2009/11/10/sonoran-whipsnake-2/</link>
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		<title>The AZ Game &amp; Fish 2010 Calendar</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I have had a photo selected for the 2010 Arizona Game &#38; Fish Wildlife Calendar! I win enough money for some new photo gear to replace some I broke this last summer, which will help. Here is more information about the calendar, where to get it (for $3), and a list of the other winners. [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://fieldherper.com/2009/11/06/the-az-game-fish-2010-calendar/</link>
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		<title>Great Plains Toad</title>
		<description><![CDATA[My sister and I found this Great Plains Toad, Bufo cognatus, out on the road near Douglas, Arizona in the summer of 2009. We had a hard time keeping him from jumping right back into traffic. Not the smartest critters around &#8230; Toad in Arizona]]></description>
		<link>http://fieldherper.com/2009/11/03/great-plains-toad/</link>
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		<title>Rainy Day in Western New Mexico</title>
		<description><![CDATA[In August I spent a few days in extreme Western New Mexico, and found a total of 86 snakes &#8230; pretty good times. I was to meet my sister for a couple days to see how many diamondbacks and mojaves we could find in as short a time as possible, and I had a day [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://fieldherper.com/2009/10/30/rainy-day-in-western-new-mexico/</link>
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		<title>Finding Hopi Rattlesnakes, Part 3</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Continued from part 1. and part 2 More Hopi Rattlesnakes, Crotalus viridis, from North Central Arizona. C. viridis Hopi Rattlesnake Hopi Rattlesnake]]></description>
		<link>http://fieldherper.com/2009/10/27/finding-hopi-rattlesnakes-part-3/</link>
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		<title>Camouflage Fail</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I watched this Canyon Treefrog, Hyla arenicolor, crawl out of a stream and climb a rock to do as they do, and take on the approximate color of the rock for an afternoon snooze. It takes awhile to take effect, it seems, as this little guy was not at all hidden at first. I set [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://fieldherper.com/2009/10/23/camouflage-fail/</link>
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		<title>Eastern Collared Lizard, My First</title>
		<description><![CDATA[For as much time as I spend out looking for reptiles, it&#8217;s always surprised me that I&#8217;ve never seen an Eastern Collared Lizard, Crotaphytus collaris. They&#8217;re big, brightly-colored, and fairly common in many of the areas I spend time. I was finally able to photography my first recently. Another one on the life list. Something very [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://fieldherper.com/2009/10/20/eastern-collared-lizard-my-first/</link>
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		<title>Busy Body Tiger Whiptail</title>
		<description><![CDATA[This big Tiger Whiptail, Aspidoscelis tigris, was foraging for food in the mesquite roots while Kelly and I watched. I&#8217;ve always thought whiptails are a bit entertaining, as they always seem to be extremely busy doing whatever they&#8217;re doing, and just can&#8217;t be bothered to run away. Not now, not while there are bills to [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://fieldherper.com/2009/10/16/busy-body-tiger-whiptail/</link>
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		<title>Elegant Earless Lizard</title>
		<description><![CDATA[An adult Elegant Earless Lizard, Holbrookia elegans, from Santa Cruz County, Arizona. Elegant Earless Lizard]]></description>
		<link>http://fieldherper.com/2009/10/13/elegant-earless-lizard/</link>
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		<title>Diamondbacks, Big &amp; Small</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Here are a couple of Western Diamondback rattlesnakes we found out cruising around after dark; the objectives of both are quite different, I am sure. This first is a fairly typical-looking Western Diamondback Rattlesnake (Crotalus atrox). The atrox I see in this area of Arizona tend to be a little more colorful than the dirt-grey [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://fieldherper.com/2009/10/08/diamondbacks-big-small/</link>
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		<title>Crazy Prairie Rattlesnake</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Late at night just inside New Mexico in August of 2009, my sister and I found an adult Prairie Rattlesnake, Crotalus viridis, on the side of the road. It was pissed; clearly something was wrong with it. When adjusting my head lamp it escaped into some bushes, and came back out again as fast as [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://fieldherper.com/2009/09/29/crazy-prairie-rattlesnake/</link>
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		<title>Western Diamondback Rattlesnakes: Variation, Quantities, &amp; Life Lessons</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Although they are very common, I always love seeing Western Diamondback Rattlesnakes, Crotalus atrox. They&#8217;re big, decently variable in appearance, and even moreso in attitude. In the Phoenix area, most that I see are grey or otherwise fairly bland in color, but they can also have shades of pink, red, and a great amount of [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://fieldherper.com/2009/09/25/western-diamondback-rattlesnakes-variation-quantities-life-lessons/</link>
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		<title>Finding a Hopi Rattlesnake, Part 2</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Continued from part 1. More beautiful little Hopi Rattlesnakes from our first outing in search of them. Hopi Rattlesnake Crotalus viridis Crotalus viridis]]></description>
		<link>http://fieldherper.com/2009/09/22/finding-a-hopi-rattlesnake-part-2/</link>
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		<title>Hot &amp; Dry in the South East, Part 3</title>
		<description><![CDATA[&#8230; continued from Part 1 &#38; Part 2. We were discussing which other rattlesnakes we could possibly see on a hot, dry evening, and no sooner did the words &#8220;there&#8217;s no way we&#8217;ll see a tiger tonight&#8221; leave my mouth did we see a Tiger Rattlesnake, Crotalus tigris. Whoa! Of course I took way too [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://fieldherper.com/2009/09/18/hot-dry-in-the-south-east-part-3/</link>
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		<title>Neonate Mojave Rattlesnakes</title>
		<description><![CDATA[On a recent outing in less-than-ideal conditions revealed the first neonate rattlesnakes I&#8217;ve seen in 2009. We found this first tiny Mojave Rattlesnake, Crotalus scutulatus, on the move. Crotalus scutulatus I forgot something in the truck, and on the 20 foot walk to retrieve it I found another; most likely from the same mother. Mojave [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://fieldherper.com/2009/09/15/neonate-mojave-rattlesnakes/</link>
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		<title>Hot &amp; Dry in the South East, Part 2</title>
		<description><![CDATA[&#8230; continued from Part 1 On the way to our evening target area, we found a few lizards. A couple of Elegant Earless Lizard, Holbrookia elegans. Elegant Earless Lizard Holbrookia elegans &#8230; and a Regal Horned Lizard, Phrynosoma solare. Phrynosoma solare After dark, the first snake we found was a MONSTER Black-Tailed Rattlesnake, Crotalus molossus. [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://fieldherper.com/2009/09/11/hot-dry-in-the-south-east-part-2/</link>
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		<title>Eastern Collared Lizard</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Here&#8217;s a young Eastern Collared Lizard, Crotaphytus collaris, found basking one morning in June. Collared Lizard]]></description>
		<link>http://fieldherper.com/2009/09/08/eastern-collared-lizard-2/</link>
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		<title>Hot &amp; Dry in the South East, Part 1</title>
		<description><![CDATA[We spent a little time in the Santa Rita mountains South of Tucson in mid July to see what there is to see. The weather actually was pretty horrible for what we were trying to do, but we had to go to Tucson to pick up a few enclosures and thought we might as well [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://fieldherper.com/2009/09/04/hot-dry-in-the-south-east-part-1/</link>
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		<title>Prickley Royalty</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Here&#8217;s a pair of Regal Horned Lizards, Phrynosoma solare, found in June basking on a dirt road. Neither tried to run away at all, and let me just walk up and grab them for some photos. Cute little guys. Phrynosoma solare Regal Horned Lizard]]></description>
		<link>http://fieldherper.com/2009/09/01/prickley-royalty/</link>
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		<title>Finding Our First Hopi Rattlesnakes, Part 1</title>
		<description><![CDATA[In the early monsoonal rains, Kelly and I went to Northern Arizona to try and find our first Hopi Rattlesnakes, Crotalus viridis, formally Crotalus viridis nuntius. The snake has actually recently been shown to be just regular Crotalus viridis, commonly called Prairie Rattlesnake, which is found elsewhere in North Eastern Arizona and throughout New Mexico. [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://fieldherper.com/2009/08/28/finding-our-first-hopi-rattlesnakes/</link>
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		<title>Bumble Bee Rattlesnake</title>
		<description><![CDATA[This is by far one of the coolest snakes I&#8217;ve encountered. It&#8217;s a relatively large Black-Tailed Rattlesnake (Crotalus molossus) in the mountain phase coloration. I most often find the less dramatically patterned desert phase molossus, and the differences between the two are obvious. This particular rattlesnake shows some extremely high contrast between pattern elements, but [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://fieldherper.com/2009/08/25/bumble-bee-rattlesnake/</link>
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		<title>Eastern Collared Lizard</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Another example of an Eastern Collared Lizard, Crotaphytus collaris, that I believe is a female. Eastern Collared Lizard]]></description>
		<link>http://fieldherper.com/2009/08/21/eastern-collared-lizard/</link>
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		<title>Baby Sonoran Sidewinder</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Just a little guy, curious about the big apre standing over him taking pictures. Crotalus cerastes cercobombus]]></description>
		<link>http://fieldherper.com/2009/08/17/baby-sonoran-sidewinder/</link>
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		<title>Pale Mojave Rattlesnake</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Mojave Rattlesnake Here&#8217;s a nice example of one of the variations that can be found in the Mojave Rattlesnake (Crotalus scutulatus). This one was fairly uniform in color, with a minimally distinct pattern, all in various hues of peach, brown and orange. Crotalus scutulatus To people who aren&#8217;t experienced, the Mojave Rattlesnake can be difficult [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://fieldherper.com/2009/08/10/pale-mojave-rattlesnake/</link>
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		<title>Southwestern Speckled Rattlesnakes</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Here are a couple of orange and pink phase Southwestern Speckled Rattlesnakes, Crotalus mitchellii phyrus, I found the other day. The bright salmon one with blue eyes currently resides in my office. Truly beautiful snakes. Southwestern Speckled Rattlesnake Crotalus mitchellii phyrus Speckled Rattlesnake Rattlesnake in Arizona Your email:&#160;]]></description>
		<link>http://fieldherper.com/2009/08/07/southwestern-speckled-rattlesnakes/</link>
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		<title>Arizona Black Rattlesnake</title>
		<description><![CDATA[After 10 hours of hard hiking and searching in the June heat, I found my target: the Arizona Black Rattlesnake, Crotalus cerberus. This is only the third I&#8217;ve ever seen, and the darkest coloration of my experience with them. Here it is as it was found, sleeping in a rock cut Crotalus cerberus Arizona Black [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://fieldherper.com/2009/08/04/arizona-black-rattlesnake/</link>
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		<title>Baby Gila Monster</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Here&#8217;s a tiny Gila Monster, Heloderma suspectrum, Kelly and I came across today while we explored the areas North of our home in Anthem. It was found right at the edge of their range, and was completely unexpected. Actually, I don&#8217;t think finding them is ever really expected, so nevermind. This is my 4th in [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://fieldherper.com/2009/07/31/baby-gila-monster/</link>
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		<title>The Worst iPhone App Ever</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Although this isn&#8217;t nearly the smallest Sonoran Sidewinder (Crotalus cerastes cercobombus) I&#8217;ve ever seen, it was the one I saw on a night when I was bored enough to try and make it sit on my phone for maybe the nerdiest photo I&#8217;ve ever taken. Here they are, and yes I&#8217;m a dork. Crotalus cerastes [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://fieldherper.com/2009/07/28/the-worst-iphone-app-ever/</link>
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		<title>Greater Earless Lizard</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Another example of a colorful Greater Earless Lizard, Cophosaurus texanus, one of the most common lizards I see out there. They&#8217;re usually the first interesting thing I see on a trip, and I&#8217;m anxious to come away with something to show for my long drive to wherever. One of these days I&#8217;ll stop taking so [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://fieldherper.com/2009/07/24/greater-earless-lizard/</link>
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		<title>Mojave Rattlesnake Relocation</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;ve only seen 2 Mojave Rattlesnakes (Crotalus scutulatus) at a home; this one, and another just out front of my own home about a week earlier. They&#8217;re cool, decently variable snakes that I always enjoy finding, but I  must admit that they really keep me on my toes. They&#8217;re particularly dangerous, as their dangerous neurotoxin [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://fieldherper.com/2009/07/21/mojave-rattlesnake-relocation/</link>
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		<title>A Big Desert Spiny Lizard</title>
		<description><![CDATA[This is the most colorful Desert Spiny Lizard, Sceloporus magister, I have ever seen. While not displaying a lot of variety, the head is solid red-orange. It was also very large. In fact, upon first seeing it, I thought it was a squirrel. Cool lizards. Desert Spiny Lizard]]></description>
		<link>http://fieldherper.com/2009/07/17/a-big-desert-spiny-lizard/</link>
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		<title>Hazards of Love</title>
		<description><![CDATA[One morning awhile back I spent the afternoon sitting behind a wall just North of Congress, Arizona, and watched the Greater Earless Lizards (Cophosaurus texanus) in great tumult over a female. Over the course of an hour or so, many males came, danced, and were either driven off or just ran away in apparent frustration. [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://fieldherper.com/2009/07/14/hazards-of-love/</link>
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		<title>Three Tiny Snakes</title>
		<description><![CDATA[In the last few trips in Arizona&#8217;s ultra-dry June, the only snakes I&#8217;ve seen are very small. There are many tiny snakes that make a living eating termites, scorpions, spiders, and other soft-bodied invertebrates, and do not get much more than a foot long. There are also those snakes that feed upon these snakes, they [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://fieldherper.com/2009/07/10/three-tiny-snakes/</link>
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		<title>Young California Kingsnake</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Here&#8217;s a very young california kingsnake (Lampropeltis getula californiae) I found out doing his thing one night. After missing a bite, it curled into a defensive ball. California Kingsnake I moved it to the base of a tree, where, which to my surprise it climbed up into the lower branches and then just sat still [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://fieldherper.com/2009/07/07/young-california-kingsnake/</link>
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		<title>Desert Grassland Whiptail</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I had to follow this little Desert Grassland Whiptail, Aspidoscelis uniparens, around for 15 minutes before it would hold still long enough to get a quick photo. Like a lot of whiptails I encounter, it didn&#8217;t much mind my presence, and felt just fine continuing to root around in the soft soil looking for small [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://fieldherper.com/2009/07/03/desert-grassland-whiptail/</link>
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		<title>Ewwwwwwwwwwwwwww</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Here&#8217;s a young regal horned lizard (Phrynosoma solare) just after squirting me, my phone, and my camera with blood from its eyes. They do this to scare off mamilian predators, which I guess means me. I must admit it worked, as unlike the a bite from the little guy, it got me to put him [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://fieldherper.com/2009/06/30/ewwwwwwwwwwwwwww/</link>
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		<title>Plateau Fence Lizard</title>
		<description><![CDATA[One of hundreds of instances of Plateau Fence Lizard, Sceloporus tristichus, I see when in the higher elevation forests of the Bradshaw Mountains North of Phoenix. This is the first I have photographed, since I had previously assumed they were something else. Good to slow down and look around once in awhile! Plateau Fence Lizard [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://fieldherper.com/2009/06/26/plateau-fence-lizard/</link>
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		<title>Sonoran Gophersnakes</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I found 2 large, adult Sonoran Gophersnakes (Pituophis catenifer affinis) within 50 feet of eachother in the early evening in April. Neither wanted to fight, which was a little uncommon for these guys. It left me a little disappointed, because it&#8217;s fun to see these large constrictors put on their impressive show of puffing, hissing, [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://fieldherper.com/2009/06/23/sonoran-gophersnakes/</link>
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		<title>Sonoran Mud Turtles</title>
		<description><![CDATA[An unsuccessful trip to the S. E. portion of Arizona on the hunt for Green Ratsnakes and Brown Vinesnakes ended up yielding some worthwhile byproducts. A cattle pond full with one log and a good number of Sonoran Mud Turtles , Kinosternon sonoriense, basking in the sun. These are the first that I&#8217;ve seen of [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://fieldherper.com/2009/06/19/sonoran-mud-turtles/</link>
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		<title>Juvenile Mojave Rattlesnakes</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Here are two young mojave rattlesnakes (Crotalus scutulatus) I found within a quarter mile of eachother. I&#8217;ve seen my share of drab individuals, but these snakes are highly variable in color and pattern, and each seems interesting for this reason. I&#8217;ve seen them range anywhere from lime green to nearly black. These are fairly typical [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://fieldherper.com/2009/06/16/juvenile-mojave-rattlesnakes/</link>
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		<title>Sonoran Whipsnake</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Here&#8217;s an example of one of the large, diurnal snakes I often see while looking for other snakes, a Sonoran Whipsnake (Coluber bilineatus). They&#8217;re really fast, hard to get your hands on, and extremely aggressive if you do manage to catch one. Fun stuff. Coluber bilineatus]]></description>
		<link>http://fieldherper.com/2009/06/12/sonoran-whipsnake/</link>
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		<title>&#8220;I Think it&#8217;s Injured&#8221;</title>
		<description><![CDATA[That&#8217;s what I thought when I encountered my first long-nosed snake (Rhinocheilus lecontei) several years ago. Many snakes have a defensive behavior called &#8220;musking&#8221; that&#8217;s an evacuation of feces and various smelly whatnot from the cloaca. Some go a step further and write around in it to cover themselves in a disgusting mess, making them [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://fieldherper.com/2009/06/09/i-think-its-injured/</link>
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		<title>A Couple of Arizona Lizards</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Since moving to the Northern area of Phoenix (Anthem), I&#8217;ve been looking forward to getting into some higher elevations to look for some of the species that live there. Here are the first and second. The first is a young Greater Short-Horned Lizard (Phrynosoma hernandesi) enjoying the early evening sun. Phronosoma hernandesi Desktop Wallpaper Version: [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://fieldherper.com/2009/06/05/a-couple-of-arizona-lizards/</link>
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		<title>Sonoran Lyresnake</title>
		<description><![CDATA[This is probably my favorite of the native colubrid snakes we have here in Arizona: a juvenile Sonoran Lyresnake (Trimorphodon lambda). They usually inhabit rocky areas in the mountains, but this one was found on flat ground many hundreds of yards from the nearest rocky outcropping. It is a bit on the venomous side, though [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://fieldherper.com/2009/06/02/sonoran-lyresnake/</link>
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		<title>Western Banded Gecko</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The Western Banded Gecko (Coleonyx variegatus) is very common in the Sonoran desert, and can easily be found under rocks during the day, where they lie in wait for dark. At night, they&#8217;re easily encountered as well. The pattern can be pretty variable as well. I&#8217;ve seen them with such diminished patterning that they look [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://fieldherper.com/2009/05/19/western-banded-gecko/</link>
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		<title>Springtime Sidewinders</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The Colorado desert scrub that makes up much of the wild areas to the West of Phoenix are absolutely crawling with Sonoran Sidewinders (Crotalus cerastes cercobombus) on warm nights in the springtime. They all look incredibly similar as well, for the most part. When they&#8217;re moving I typically see 5 or more in an outing. [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://fieldherper.com/2009/05/12/springtime-sidewinders/</link>
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		<title>Online Field Herpetology Tools</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I added some new links to the site (permanently added in the links section, obviously). These are websites that I use for my trips. They&#8217;re very useful for anyone looking to find animals out there, and often make the difference between a successful and skunk herping trip. Weather: Wunderground.com Moon Phase: U.S. Navy Astronomical Applications [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://fieldherper.com/2009/05/08/online-field-herpetology-tools/</link>
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		<description><![CDATA[Continued from part 1, part 2, part 3, part 4,  part 5 and part 6. The rest of that day and evening were uneventful, unfortunately. We left the Superstitions and headed way out West of Phoenix to try and see some other species of Crotalus. To make things worse, temperatures were way down, even from [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://fieldherper.com/2009/05/05/606/</link>
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		<title>Quality, Not Quantity (Part 6, Crotalus molossus)</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Continued from part 1, part 2, part 3, part 4, and part 5 The ground temperatures eventually got higher and we decided to head back to try another wash that had more cover, where I&#8217;d previously seen many of our target species, the Black-Tailed Rattlesnake (Crotaluss molossus). On the way, I jumped up and across [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://fieldherper.com/2009/05/01/quality-not-quantity-part-6-crotalus-molossus/</link>
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		<title>Quality, Not Quantity (Part 5, the Rattlesnakes)</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Continued from part 1, part 2, part 3 and part 4 &#8230; After finding nothing else enjoying the morning sun, we started hiking an open, rocky wash I had spotted the day before as a possible place to find our target for the trip and my favorite of the rattlesnakes I&#8217;ve encountered so far, Crotalus [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://fieldherper.com/2009/04/28/quality-not-quantity-part-5-the-rattlesnakes/</link>
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		<title>Quality, Not Quantity (Part 4)</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Continued from part 1, part 2, and part 3 &#8230; I spent a good part of the day exploring the Northern end of the mountains, where it was too cold to find any animals, but productive nonetheless as I found some great places to visit later in the year. The desert was in bloom and [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://fieldherper.com/2009/04/23/quality-not-quantity-part-4/</link>
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		<title>Quality, Not Quantity (Part 3)</title>
		<description><![CDATA[&#8230; continued from part 1 and part 2. In the morning, the first thing I found was a biggie for me. It was a Gila Monster (Heloderma suspectum), only my second find of this animal. Gila Monster Heloderma suspectum I took a lot of pictures. I&#8217;ve only seen 2 in so many trips to the [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://fieldherper.com/2009/04/17/quality-not-quantity-part-3/</link>
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		<title>Quality, Not Quantity (Part 2, Sonoran Coralsnake)</title>
		<description><![CDATA[&#8230; continued from part 1. I was really happy to have found this Sonoran Coralsnake (Micruroides euryxanthus) out on the move.  This is the 5th I&#8217;ve seen, and I was happy to be able to show my new friends from Pennsylvania one of the more elusive venomous snakes we have here in Arizona. This is [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://fieldherper.com/2009/04/14/quality-not-quantity-part-2-sonoran-coralsnake/</link>
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		<title>Quality, Not Quantity (part 1)</title>
		<description><![CDATA[On Tuesday night I headed off into the Superstition mountains for a 4-day springtime trip to try and see whatever could be seen. I would be meeting up with a pair of Timber rattlesnake researchers from Pennsylvania the next day to try and find a Black-tailed Rattlesnake (Crotalus molossus) Unfortunately, the weather did not agree [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://fieldherper.com/2009/04/10/quality-not-quantity-part-1/</link>
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		<title>Lots of Hiking, Not Much Herping</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I spent the weekend putting miles on my legs/car without seeing many animals. It didn&#8217;t surprise me being the third week of march in less than ideal conditions. It was still nice to get out and do some exploring, no matter what the results were. The temperatures were in the high 70s, but the air [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://fieldherper.com/2009/04/07/lots-of-hiking-not-much-herping/</link>
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		<title>A Pair of C. atrox</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Kris and I went on a hike up the Agua Fria river to do some herping, but moreso to just get out a bit and enjoy the nice day. Pretty quickly, Kris spotted a Western Diamondback Rattlesnake (Crotalus atrox) under a fallen boulder. I was excited to see a second snake coiled just behind the [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://fieldherper.com/2009/04/03/a-pair-of-c-atrox/</link>
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		<title>Dark Diamondback from North Phoenix Area</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Here&#8217;s a cool looking Western Diamondback Rattlesnake (Crotalus atrox) from the North Phoenix area with a lot more dark/chocotate coloration than the more typical greys I see around here. He was very large and fat too, and posed nicely for some photos in the morning sun. Crotalus atrox Western Diamondback Rattlesnake Crotalus atrox Crotalus atrox]]></description>
		<link>http://fieldherper.com/2009/03/31/dark-diamondback-from-north-phoenix-area/</link>
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		<title>Another &#8217;08 Ridge-Nose Rattlesnake</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Last year I was lucky enough to see a few willardi out and about in South East Arizona. Now that I know what to look for, I hope to see a good amount more this year. Here&#8217;s another photo of a large male from my second productive trip into willardi range. Crotalus willardi]]></description>
		<link>http://fieldherper.com/2009/03/27/another-08-ridge-nose-rattlesnake/</link>
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		<title>Desert Patch-Nosed Snake from La Paz County</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Kelly and I went for a hike through the low areas of the Harcuvar mountains in Eastern La Paz County today, looking for snakes of course, but mostly just getting a bit of a workout in preparation for the upcoming year. Other than some amazing habitat, the only snake we found was an adult Desert [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://fieldherper.com/2009/03/24/desert-patch-nosed-snake-from-la-paz-county/</link>
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		<title>Lowland Leopard Frog</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Here&#8217;s a Lowland Leopard Frog (Rana yavapaiensis) from Santa Cruz County. I&#8217;ve seen this species before, but did not realize that it was not the very similar-looking Chiricuahua Leopard Frog until I had returned home and found my half-ass photos weren&#8217;t good enough to salvage &#8230; not that this one is spectacular or anything. I like [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://fieldherper.com/2009/03/22/lowland-leopard-frog/</link>
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		<title>Funny Looking Stick</title>
		<description><![CDATA[One of these sticks is not like the others. Banded Rock Rattlesnake in Arizona]]></description>
		<link>http://fieldherper.com/2009/03/20/funny-looking-stick/</link>
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		<title>California Kingsnake</title>
		<description><![CDATA[This is a both a completely horrible photo, and an example of why I love the camera RAW format. I did not check my exposure settings before taking pictures of this guy, and ended up with a card of pure-black trash. This is not an ideal photo of course, but I was able to salvage [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://fieldherper.com/2009/03/17/california-kingsnake-2/</link>
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		<title>Springtime Side-Blotched Lizards</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Spring is here, and I&#8217;m finally out hiking several times a week. I haven&#8217;t seen many snakes yet, but these side-blotched lizards are everywhere. They let you get decently close before running away, and can display some brilliant colors this time of year. I usually don&#8217;t take many photos of them, but this one stayed [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://fieldherper.com/2009/03/13/springtime-side-blotched-lizards/</link>
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		<title>Ridge Nosed Rattlesnake</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Here&#8217;s another shot of a Ridge Nosed Rattlesnake (Crotalus willardi) we found last August. Cool little snakes, and very enjoyable to search for. Crotalus willardi in South East Arizona Your email:&#160;]]></description>
		<link>http://fieldherper.com/2009/03/10/ridge-nosed-rattlesnake/</link>
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		<title>Springtime Sunsets North of Anthem</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;ve recently been getting out a bit into the hills immediately North of my new home of Anthem, Arizona, and recording coordinates of good places to check for snakes later in the year. Other than some Chuckwallas and signs of snake activity, I haven&#8217;t found much. As always, when snakes are scarce, sunset photos fill [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://fieldherper.com/2009/03/08/springtime-sunsets-north-of-anthem/</link>
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		<title>On Arizona&#8217;s Small Diamondbacks</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;ve had a few conversations in the last year (most recently, yesterday) about the size differences in Crotalus atrox and other species of rattlesnake. In Arizona, the largest rattlesnake I&#8217;ve seen was maybe a few inches past 4&#8242; in length, with the majority of encountered adults being just over 3&#8242;. I&#8217;ve found 4 instances of [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://fieldherper.com/2009/03/04/on-arizonas-small-diamondbacks/</link>
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		<title>The Official Start of the 2009</title>
		<description><![CDATA[It&#8217;s been on the warm side lately; being the end of February, we&#8217;ll have 90F daytime temperatures in a couple of weeks. The snakes are waking up, and they&#8217;re hungry and want to meet some girls. Although it didn&#8217;t quite hit 80 degrees here in Anthem today, I had tons of energy to burn off [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://fieldherper.com/2009/02/26/the-official-start-of-the-2009/</link>
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		<title>First Rattlesnake of 2009: A Relocation</title>
		<description><![CDATA[After hiking many miles last Sunday and finding no snakes, I was happy to get my first relocation call of 2009. Nothing crazy or all that exciting, but I still went nuts trying to find all my gear; still hidden in various parts of the garage after our move.  He was under a pile of [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://fieldherper.com/2009/02/23/first-rattlesnake-of-2009-a-relocation/</link>
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		<title>Hawaii Herping</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Kelly and I visited Oahu, Hawaii this January. To the surprise of most, there are no native reptiles or amphibians in Hawaii. There are, however, 17 invasive species that have done very well for themselves. These include the Jackson&#8217;s Chameleon, which would be very cool to see, but upon doing some research &#8230; it&#8217;s not [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://fieldherper.com/2009/02/15/hawaii-herping/</link>
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		<title>This is makes a great start to a week in the desert looking for snakes</title>
		<description><![CDATA[rain raining]]></description>
		<link>http://fieldherper.com/2009/02/02/this-is-makes-a-great-start-to-a-week-in-the-desert-looking-for-snakes/</link>
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		<title>Chiricahua Leopard Frog</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Here&#8217;s a Chiricahua Leopard Frog (Lithobates chiricahuensis), my first photo-worthy encounter. I couldn&#8217;t sneak within range on foot, but in a car &#8230; they don&#8217;t seem to even register it as a threat. I drove to within a few feet and shot this picture out the window, and they only lept into the water upon [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://fieldherper.com/2009/01/12/chiricahua-leopard-frog/</link>
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		<title>Canyon Treefrog (Hyla arenicolor)</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Canyon Treefrog]]></description>
		<link>http://fieldherper.com/2009/01/08/canyon-treefrog-hyla-arenicolor/</link>
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		<title>Lomo-Style Shots from Southern Utah</title>
		<description><![CDATA[lomo-utah11 lomo-utah21 lomo-utah31 lomo-utah41 lomo-utah51 lomo-utah61]]></description>
		<link>http://fieldherper.com/2009/01/04/lomo-style-shots-from-southern-utah/</link>
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		<title>Young (metamorph) Canyon Treefrog</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Hundreds of these were swimming in shallow pools this September in Santa Cruz county, along with many more less-developed tadpoles of various species. This is the southern-most example of a Canyon Treefrog I had seen. Canyon Treefrog Canyon Treefrog   Also out in vast numbers were these big lubber grasshoppers. They were so big that [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://fieldherper.com/2009/01/03/young-metamorph-canyon-treefrog/</link>
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		<title>Southern Utah</title>
		<description><![CDATA[HDR Picture with a LOMO effect from near Kanab Utah last June. southern-utah]]></description>
		<link>http://fieldherper.com/2008/12/31/southern-utah/</link>
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		<title>Diamondback Relocation</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Here&#8217;s a pretty typical-looking Western Diamondback Rattlesnake on the move towards some open rodent burrows after being relocated from a North Phoenix garage. The guy I got it from had a lot of respect for the snake, and actually kept it in an aquarium in his garage to be released, despite pleas from the neighbors [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://fieldherper.com/2008/12/27/diamondback-relocation/</link>
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		<title>Early Morning Banded Rock Rattlesnake</title>
		<description><![CDATA[This one took a little work. It was very early in the morning and the mosquitos were just ridiculous, and she was on a ledge that didn&#8217;t give many options for a stealthy approach. I ended up having to pretty much crawl on my belly under some low hanging branches through wet grass to get [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://fieldherper.com/2008/12/23/early-morning-banded-rock-rattlesnake/</link>
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		<title>2008 Crotalus willardi</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Another 2008 Crotalus willardi Crotalus willardi]]></description>
		<link>http://fieldherper.com/2008/12/18/2008-crotalus-willardi/</link>
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		<title>Ridge Nosed Rattlesnake, My First</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Here&#8217;s a picture from an early August morning with my first instance of this snake, the Ridge-Nosed Rattlesnake (Crotalus willardi). We found a few more that month, but there&#8217;s never a snake like your first. This picture just feels like someone slept in the driver&#8217;s seat of their car in the middle of nowhere to [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://fieldherper.com/2008/12/15/ridge-nosed-rattlesnake-my-first/</link>
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		<title>Neonate Mojave Rattlesnake</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Found this little baby last July. Feisty little guy. Crotalus scutulatus]]></description>
		<link>http://fieldherper.com/2008/12/10/neonate-mojave-rattlesnake/</link>
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		<title>Western Diamondback Rattlesnake and Bad Photography</title>
		<description><![CDATA[A Diamondback I photographed in July 2006 with my little point and click, out on the road. Rattlesnake in Arizona]]></description>
		<link>http://fieldherper.com/2008/12/10/western-diamondback-rattlesnake-and-bad-photography/</link>
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		<title>Crotalus scutulatus (archive)</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Here&#8217;s another old photograph of a Mojave Rattlesnake found road-cruising in Arizona. Mojave Rattlesnake from Arizona]]></description>
		<link>http://fieldherper.com/2008/12/03/crotalus-scutulatus-archive/</link>
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		<title>Western Diamondback Rattlesnake</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Here&#8217;s a picture from back before I knew anything at all about Photography on my old Minolta Z6. If I remember correctly, it was  relocation call in East Mesa or Apache Junction in a neighborhood I got called to quite often. Crotalus atrox]]></description>
		<link>http://fieldherper.com/2008/12/01/western-diamondback-rattlesnake/</link>
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		<title>Hands On with a Snake that Hates Hands</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I love coachwhips (Coluber flagellum). They&#8217;re big, fast, aggressive, and will bite you several times more than may seem prudent &#8230; all the good stuff in a snake. Kelly and I managed to find this one as it sprinted across the road early in the morning just North of Tuscon. We see lots, but the [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://fieldherper.com/2008/11/27/hands-on-with-a-snake-that-hates-hands/</link>
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		<title>Thanksgiving Patchnose</title>
		<description><![CDATA[We caught this neonate patchnose snake out and about in the cold while on the way to my parent&#8217;s house in New Mexico. I&#8217;m glad we were the ones that found him. This is also officially the latest in the year I&#8217;ve ever found a snake &#8230; November 20th.  Big Bend Patchnose Snake]]></description>
		<link>http://fieldherper.com/2008/11/26/thanksgiving-patchnose/</link>
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		<title>Greater Earless Lizard (Cophosaurus texanus)</title>
		<description><![CDATA[From my archive of stuff I need to get on this site, from before I had a decent camera. Cophosaurus texanus Your email:&#160;]]></description>
		<link>http://fieldherper.com/2008/11/24/greater-earless-lizard-cophosaurus-texanus/</link>
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		<title>Mojave Rattlesnake</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Here&#8217;s a Mojave Rattlesnake (Crotalus scutulatus) I found a year or two ago. Clean and pretty. Crotalus scutulatus]]></description>
		<link>http://fieldherper.com/2008/11/20/mojave-rattlesnake/</link>
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		<title>Arizona Toad</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;ve seen a ton of toads, but this is my first Arizona Toad (Anaxyrus microscaphus). I wish I would have realized it then &#8230; I would have taken a few more pics! Arizona Toad, Anaxyrus microscaphus]]></description>
		<link>http://fieldherper.com/2008/11/13/arizona-toad/</link>
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		<title>California Kingsnake</title>
		<description><![CDATA[A dirty Lampropeltis getula californiae from a few years back. This one was a total jerk and bit my arm. Lampropeltis getula californiae]]></description>
		<link>http://fieldherper.com/2008/11/11/california-kingsnake/</link>
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		<title>Regal Horned Lizard</title>
		<description><![CDATA[A Phrynosoma solare found after a sprint-time hike a year or two ago. Phrynosoma solare Your email:&#160;]]></description>
		<link>http://fieldherper.com/2008/11/09/regal-horned-lizard-2/</link>
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		<title>Yarrow&#8217;s Spiny Lizard</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Here&#8217;s a Yarrow&#8217;s Spiny Lizard (Sceloporus jarrovii) from the Western side of the Chiricuahua mountains in Eastern Arizona. Late in the summer there are babies jumping around on about any rock you put your eyes on. Excuse the crappy photo. It&#8217;s an old one, like most of the Wintertime pics I&#8217;ve been posting. Sceloporus jarrovii [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://fieldherper.com/2008/11/07/yarrows-spiny-lizard/</link>
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		<title>Backyard Herping</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Although I live in the center of a decently old and highly populated part of Phoenix that&#8217;s at least 10 minutes from the nearest reasonable habitat for native wildlife, my yard of one of the many here where Ornate Tree Lizards (Urosaurus ornatus) dominate the cinderblock walls and ivy-covered ledges. They&#8217;re fun to watch, and [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://fieldherper.com/2008/11/05/backyard-herping/</link>
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		<title>Desert Nightsnake</title>
		<description><![CDATA[A Desert Nightsnake (Hypsiglena chlorophaea) from the same trip as the previously mentioned Black-Tailed Rattlesnake. Although slightly venomous, they&#8217;re completely harmless and I&#8217;ve never had one attempt to bite me. I love their big cat-eyes. Hypsiglena chlorophaea Your email:&#160; Here&#8217;s the same little snake sitting on top of my ripped up fingernail. Fancy little guy. [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://fieldherper.com/2008/11/03/desert-nightsnake/</link>
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		<title>Black-Tailed Rattlesnake</title>
		<description><![CDATA[This greenish Black-Tailed Rattlesnake (Crotalus molossus) was actually the first I had been able to take pictures of. The previous year I looked all over for them and really wanted to see one. In late October I finally found one, but it was on a busy mountain road in a severe thunderstorm and it wasn&#8217;t [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://fieldherper.com/2008/11/01/black-tailed-rattlesnake/</link>
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		<title>Sonoran Lyresnake from S.E. Arizona</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Here&#8217;s one of my favorite native snakes, a Sonoran Lyresnake. We found it out in a relatively flat area at a higher elevation and were totally surprised to run into him. They&#8217;re thin, always aggressive, and slightly venomous (not hospital-worthy but reportedly can be pretty painful for awhile), and otherwise a great example of a [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://fieldherper.com/2008/10/30/sonoran-lyresnake-from-se-arizona/</link>
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		<title>American Bullfrog</title>
		<description><![CDATA[One of many invasive bullfrogs to be found in the lakes of Arizona, gobbling up all the native animals. I like frogs, and bullfrogs where they&#8217;re native, but I wouldn&#8217;t mind a few thousand of these guys suddenly being dead in our state. Lithobates catesbeianus Your email:&#160;]]></description>
		<link>http://fieldherper.com/2008/10/13/american-bullfrog/</link>
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		<title>Arizona Tree Frog (my first)</title>
		<description><![CDATA[This little Arizona Tree Frog (Hyla wrightorum) was spotted by Floyd on a recent trip down South. Hyla wrightorum Your email:&#160;]]></description>
		<link>http://fieldherper.com/2008/10/11/arizona-tree-frog-my-first/</link>
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		<title>Eye for an Eye</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Kris gets revenge on a neonate Whipsnake. uhhh]]></description>
		<link>http://fieldherper.com/2008/10/08/eye-for-an-eye/</link>
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		<title>Supertrail + Megahike + Ultrapost</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Here&#8217;s from a trip way back in May, where Kris and I struck out on snakes, but not for lack of effort. We hiked so hard I seriously had trouble walking the next day, and it takes quite a bit to do that to me. We got up before the sun and headed South to [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://fieldherper.com/2008/10/05/supertrail/</link>
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		<title>Skull Valley, Arizona</title>
		<description><![CDATA[&#8230; a couple pictures from a recent trip that failed to produce my target species, but provided some nice practice with my HDR technique. hdr-prescott-forest hdr-skull-valley-1]]></description>
		<link>http://fieldherper.com/2008/10/01/skull-valley-arizona/</link>
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		<title>Gophersnakes in Central Utah</title>
		<description><![CDATA[During the early summer I went to Idaho to visit some friends, and took the opportunity to route a &#8216;herpable&#8217; route back home. I did what I could, and managed to turn up a few Great Basin Gophersnakes (Pituophis catenifer deserticola) along the way. An antelope running from me: antelope Great Basin Gophersnake Great Basin [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://fieldherper.com/2008/09/06/gophersnakes-in-central-utah/</link>
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		<title>Banded Rock Rattlesnakes</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Here are a couple more Banded Rock Rattlesnakes (Crotalus lepidus kauberi) found while searching for willardi this year. Here is an adult male of average size, and probably the prettiest I&#8217;ve seen of this species in my limited experience. Crotalus lepidus klauberi Crotalus lepidus klauberi Crotalus lepidus klauberi &#8230; and another young male out and [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://fieldherper.com/2008/09/03/banded-rock-rattlesnakes/</link>
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		<title>3 &#8220;Lifers&#8221; in a Day</title>
		<description><![CDATA[For the non-herpers: A &#8216;lifer&#8217; is the first encounter with an animal. What could be considered a first encounter differs from person to person. Mine is a satisfactory experience where I am able to photograph it and basically be in a situation where I can stare at it until I&#8217;m done. I saw my first [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://fieldherper.com/2008/08/30/3-lifers-in-a-day/</link>
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		<title>Field Herping Byproducts</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Being out in the wildnerness looking for snakes puts a person in a lot of attractive surrounding, and every trip comes with a story. Here are a few HDR (and non HDR) pictures taken in-between snakes. HDR Picture in S.E. Arizona HDR Picture of Santa Cruz County HDR Picture in Arizona Praying Mantis This one [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://fieldherper.com/2008/08/27/field-herping-byproducts/</link>
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		<title>Sonoran Whipsnake (Coluber bilineatus)</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Here&#8217;s a neonate we found out and about in South Eastern Arizona. Pissy little guy with a bright red nose. Maybe that&#8217;s why he was so upset. c-bilineatus-080908 Your email:&#160;]]></description>
		<link>http://fieldherper.com/2008/08/24/sonoran-whipsnake-coluber-bilineatus/</link>
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		<title>Banded Rock Rattlesnake (Crotalus lepidus klauberi)</title>
		<description><![CDATA[With the rain come the animals, and then me out after them. Trips have been productive, and I&#8217;m proud to say I&#8217;ve knocked several species off my life list. Rather than post a bunch of mega-threads, I&#8217;ll just throw out my 2008 monsoon season one animal at a time. It seems easier on my seldom-seen [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://fieldherper.com/2008/08/21/banded-rock-rattlesnake-crotalus-lepidus-klauberi/</link>
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		<title>Speckled Rattlesnake</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Here&#8217;s my second-ever Speckled Rattlesnake (Crotalus mitchellii) I&#8217;ve ever found. The somewhat surreal look to the pictures is due to a compositing technique known as HDR, which are becoming quite popular these days. Fortunately for me, a goo 90% of the HDR pictures out there are of old barns or graphiti, so at least I&#8217;m [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://fieldherper.com/2008/08/18/speckled-rattlesnake/</link>
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		<title>Western Diamondback Rattlesnake</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Here&#8217;s a good example of the diamondbacks that live up in Yavapai county. A lot of the same greys we see down closer to Phoenix, but a little better contrast in my experience. Western Diamondback Rattlesnake]]></description>
		<link>http://fieldherper.com/2008/08/15/western-diamondback-rattlesnake-2/</link>
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		<title>Black-Tailed Rattlesnake</title>
		<description><![CDATA[On a slow night, we found a young Black-Tailed Rattlesnake (Crotalus molossus) out and about. I got a few pictures, but the area wasn&#8217;t pose-friendly. Oh well &#8230; a nice snake regardless. Crotalus molossus Crotalus molossus Your email:&#160;]]></description>
		<link>http://fieldherper.com/2008/08/12/black-tailed-rattlesnake-2/</link>
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		<title>A Snake Story</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Early one morning &#8230; &#8220;Oh, hi! Let me take a picture of you!&#8221; &#8220;Hmm, a little out of focus. let me try agaaaIIIIIHHH!!!!&#8221; ~ The End ~ Your email:&#160;]]></description>
		<link>http://fieldherper.com/2008/08/09/a-snake-story/</link>
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		<title>New Mexico Trip, July 2008, Part 6</title>
		<description><![CDATA[&#8230; continued from parts 1, 2, 3, 4, and 5. Here are some more pictures from the drive back to Arizona. Cloudcroft, New Mexico Near Silver City, New Mexico HDR Photo in New Mexico That night we stayed just inside New Mexico, and spent a few hours along the border. sunset &#8230; when herps are [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://fieldherper.com/2008/08/06/new-mexico-trip-july-2008-part-6/</link>
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		<title>New Mexico Trip, July 2008, Part 5</title>
		<description><![CDATA[&#8230; continued from parts 1, 2, 3, and 4. We went for a short hike along the Delaware River in the afternoon. Temperatures were a little too hot to see much other than some whiptails. I did get some pictures of a softshell turtle. It was my first, so I was quite satisfied with this [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://fieldherper.com/2008/08/03/new-mexico-trip-july-2008-part-5/</link>
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		<title>New Mexico Trip, July 2008, Part 4</title>
		<description><![CDATA[&#8230; continued from part 1, 2 and 3. In the morning we went to see the caves. I&#8217;ll keep this post separate, since it&#8217;s a lot of cave pictures, and this site isn&#8217;t called caveexplorer.com. Carlsbad Caverns Carlsbad Caverns Carlsbad Caverns Carlsbad Caverns Carlsbad Caverns Carlsbad Caverns Carlsbad Caverns Carlsbad Caverns If you want to [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://fieldherper.com/2008/07/31/new-mexico-trip-july-2008-part-4/</link>
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		<title>New Mexico Trip, July 2008, Part 3</title>
		<description><![CDATA[&#8230; continued from part 1 and part 2. We eventually arrived at my parent&#8217;s house in Carlsbad mid-morning. After relaxing a bit, we went out to an area near town to see what there is to see. I brought my parents with me as well. Here&#8217;s my mom holding a Red-Spotted Toad (Anaxyrus punctatus formerly [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://fieldherper.com/2008/07/28/new-mexico-trip-july-2008-part-3/</link>
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		<title>New Mexico Trip, July 2008, Part 2</title>
		<description><![CDATA[&#8230; continued from part 1. We crossed into New Mexico about a half hour after dark and headed East. We found another young Western Diamondback Rattlesnake (Crotalus atrox) pretty quickly. It had a pretty minimal pattern on it, and had more pink coloration than I&#8217;m used to seeing in the Phoenix area. Crotalus atrox Then [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://fieldherper.com/2008/07/25/new-mexico-trip-july-2008-part-2/</link>
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		<title>New Mexico Trip, July 2008, Part 1</title>
		<description><![CDATA[We left at about 2 in the afternoon to take the long route to the border, and then use some backroads to get to El Paso for the night. The area along the Arizona/New Mexico border was just finished being pounded by monsoonal rain. The air was in the upper 70&#8242;s, which is a little [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://fieldherper.com/2008/07/22/new-mexico-trip-july-2008-part-1/</link>
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		<title>Red-Spotted Toad</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Here&#8217;s a picture of a Red-Spotted toad (Bufo punctatus) I took a few years ago. Just cleaning out some old stuff in the sort folder. In October, these guys can be found in great masses in the hills and mountains surrounding Phoenix, Arizona. This one is from the Superstition Mountains, where every overturned rock will [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://fieldherper.com/2008/07/20/red-spotted-toad/</link>
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		<title>Some Early Rain</title>
		<description><![CDATA[It rained on the 26th. It&#8217;s a little early, and we really wanted to just get out of the house. I knew we wouldn&#8217;t see much, if anything, but a night out cruising with no snakes is always better than a boring and hot Thursday evening hiding inside from the sun. The clouds and smoke [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://fieldherper.com/2008/06/28/some-early-rain/</link>
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		<title>Laying Low</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I haven&#8217;t been herping in awhile now. It&#8217;s hot, dry, and my gas budget has gone to visiting old friends and an upcoming trip to see my parents in New Mexico. I did manage to find a couple of Great Basin Gopher Snakes (Pituophis catenifer deserticola) while driving through Utah, but that&#8217;s about it. With [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://fieldherper.com/2008/06/25/laying-low/</link>
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		<title>Diamondback Rescue While I Wait for Rain</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The herping has been on pause these last few weeks. In late May, Kris and I had quite a trip down to the South East part of the state and really didn&#8217;t see much of anything. The air is extremely dry at this time of year, leaving a lot of reptiles in their holes until [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://fieldherper.com/2008/06/10/diamondback-rescue-while-i-wait-for-rain/</link>
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		<title>Memorial Day Hike in the McDowell Mountains</title>
		<description><![CDATA[After a couple hours of difficult hiking in the White Tanks on the 25th, I was looking forward to a nice and calm stroll over flat land with Kelly for Memorial day. We slept in late and left the house around 1, and only planned to be gone a few hours. Temps were in the [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://fieldherper.com/2008/05/30/memorial-day-hike-in-the-mcdowell-mountains/</link>
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		<title>Desert Night Snake</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Kris and I went out the other night, but the low-pressure system moving down on us made it too cold to herp pretty quickly after sundown. On the way back to town we did find a cool little Desert Night Snake (Hypsiglena chlorophaea). Desert Nightsnake Your email:&#160;]]></description>
		<link>http://fieldherper.com/2008/05/27/desert-night-snake/</link>
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		<title>Ugh (Except for the molossus)</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The weekend looked good for a trip up north to see what there is to see. We got a hotel room and headed out and were justified 10 minutes into our hike with a beautiful Black-Tailed Rattlesnake. It was my second in 2 weeks of my favorite rattlesnake, and Kelly&#8217;s first experience with one. I [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://fieldherper.com/2008/05/23/ugh-except-for-the-molossus/</link>
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		<title>Superstitions Black-Tailed Rattlesnake (continued)</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Here are a few more pictures of the snake from Mother&#8217;s day. Crotalus molossus from Arizona Blacktailed Rattlesnake found Field Herping in Arizona Crotalus molossus Black-Tailed Rattlesnake found outside Phoenix, Arizona Your email:&#160;]]></description>
		<link>http://fieldherper.com/2008/05/21/superstitions-black-tailed-rattlesnake-continued/</link>
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		<title>Superstition Mountains Black-Tailed Rattlesnake</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Here&#8217;s a Black-Tailed Rattlesnake (Crotalus molossus) from a few ago. I found him after a long hike in the Superstition mountains, Northeast of Mesa, Arizona. He&#8217;d just finished swimming across a creek and was heading into the bushes at the base of a large tree when I found him. This is my favorite rattlesnake, and [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://fieldherper.com/2008/05/19/superstition-mountains-black-tailed-rattlesnake/</link>
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		<title>HDR Photo from the Superstition Mountains</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Superstition Mountains, Arizona]]></description>
		<link>http://fieldherper.com/2008/05/14/hdr-photo-from-the-superstition-mountains/</link>
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		<title>Baby Bearded Dragons!</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I know it&#8217;s not field herping, but the babies started coming out of their eggs today and I had to take some pictures. Here they are coming out and opening their eyes for the first time. Bearded Dragons Hatching Here they are with my ipod shuffle for size comparizon. Baby Bearded Dragons Here&#8217;s one that&#8217;s [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://fieldherper.com/2008/05/13/baby-bearded-dragons/</link>
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		<title>&#8220;No Herping Weekend&#8221; = FAIL</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Last weekend was supposed to be the weekend where I don&#8217;t go herping. My brother is in town and I planned on wasting the entire time drinking and eating horrible things. Friday night went well, but by Saturday morning at 8 a.m. I was halfway up a mountain North of Phoenix. The place kind of [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://fieldherper.com/2008/05/12/no-herping-weekend-fail/</link>
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		<title>Halfway to California with 2 Lifers</title>
		<description><![CDATA[We started early and headed West, nearly all the way to Parker. Lots happened, but nothing really worth mentioning. Eventually we ended up in the Harquahala Mountains looking for boas, which is about as tedious a practice as you&#8217;ll find in this hobby. It wasn&#8217;t long before we were back out in an old favorite [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://fieldherper.com/2008/05/04/halfway-to-california-with-2-lifers/</link>
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		<title>Mojave Shovel-Nosed Snake &amp; Sonoran Sidewinder</title>
		<description><![CDATA[A couple of snakes from a slow night on the West end of Maricopa County. We found the usual bunch of Sonoran sidewinders (Crotalus cerastes) out and about. They don&#8217;t have a lot of variability, so if you&#8217;ve seen one you&#8217;ve pretty much seen them all. I usually get out to get some pictures of [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://fieldherper.com/2008/04/27/mojave-shovel-nosed-snake-sonoran-sidewinder/</link>
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		<title>Recent Outings</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The last few times out have been a little slower. On the 13th, Kris and I went up to Yavapai County to look for some Speckled Rattlesnakes (Crotalus Mitchellii) or maybe a Rosy Boa (Lichanura trivirgata), but struck out. Even that night cruising back to town in the lower elevations that all indications showed would [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://fieldherper.com/2008/04/21/recent-outings/</link>
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		<title>Evening in the White Tank Mountains, April 14th</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Kelly and I went out for a casual evening hike in the White Tank Mountains, West of Phoenix tonight. The goal was some fresh air, but reptiles were welcome to join us of course. The usual butt-ton of Common Side-Blotched Lizards (Uta stansburiana) lept from rock to rock trying their best to ward off the [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://fieldherper.com/2008/04/15/evening-in-the-white-tank-mountains-april-14th/</link>
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		<title>HDR Photo of an Arizona Bark Scorpion (Centruroides sculpturatus)</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Taken today in Yavapai Co., Arizona. hdr-cent-sculpturatus-041208]]></description>
		<link>http://fieldherper.com/2008/04/12/hdr-photo-of-an-arizona-bark-scorpion-centruroides-sculpturatus/</link>
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		<title>Memory Cards &amp; Mojave</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Things have cooled off a little so we haven&#8217;t seen much in the last week or two. We found ourselves out there on Saturday after a likewise bunk fishing trip and saw nothing but maybe 5-6 dead Coachwhips (Masticophis flagellum), a Mojave (Crotalus scutulatus) that we watched get hit by a car as we waited, [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://fieldherper.com/2008/04/11/memory-cards-mojave/</link>
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		<title>Western Lyresnake from 2007</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Here&#8217;s a Western Lyresnake (Trimorphodon biscutatus) I found with Bill Sloan from the AHA last summer sometime in the mountains South of Bagdad, Arizona. I&#8217;ll probably have a lot of these &#8216;found this in my old stuff&#8217; kind of posts in the next month or so as I streamline my process on this computer with [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://fieldherper.com/2008/04/06/western-lyresnake-from-2007/</link>
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		<title>First Relocation of 2008</title>
		<description><![CDATA[It was the usual Diamondback. By the time I got up there, it had crawled into the neighbors&#8217; yard and fallen asleep. It really wasn&#8217;t happy to be woken up! It was probably one of the most aggressive atrox I have ever encountered. After being released he crawled to the base of a bush and [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://fieldherper.com/2008/04/02/first-relocation-of-2008/</link>
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		<title>Hiking West of Phoenix, 03-30-08</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Floyd and I went hiking through the desert scrub and low-laying foothills West of the White Tank mountains for a few hours this afternoon. Temperatures were in the mid 70&#8242;s, and there was a good amount of wind. We saw a lot of the usual whiptails, urosaurus, zebra-tailed lizards, but not much else. We did [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://fieldherper.com/2008/03/30/hiking-west-of-phoenix-03-30-08/</link>
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		<title>Herping West of Phoenix, 03-28-08</title>
		<description><![CDATA[We went out tonight and found a good 10 or so snakes in the nice, warm air. The temperatures stayed in the mid 70&#8242;s for about an hour and a half after dark, and there was a lot of movement in that time. Here&#8217;s some of what we found:]]></description>
		<link>http://fieldherper.com/2008/03/29/herping-west-of-phoenix-03-28-08/</link>
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		<title>Desert Horned Lizard</title>
		<description><![CDATA[We went for a short hike Easter evening about an hour West of Phoenix and saw lizards of all sorts. I got a few shots that might have had some promise, but am not too bright and left my ISO at 800 from some previous in-home screwing around. Lots of white on my card. Whoops! [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://fieldherper.com/2008/03/23/regal-horned-lizard/</link>
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		<title>The First Snakes of 2008</title>
		<description><![CDATA[We did a little exploring tonight West of Phoenix and found a new leg to our &#8220;close to home&#8221; route, as well as a few snakes! Totals: 2 Western Diamondbacks (Crotalus atrox) 3 Mojave Rattlesnakes (Crotalus scutulatus), 2 DOR 2 Sonoran Sidewinders (Crotalus cerastes cercobombus), 1 DOR &#8230; nothing spectaular, but a good turnout for [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://fieldherper.com/2008/03/22/the-first-snakes-of-2008/</link>
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		<title>New Stuff</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I went shopping last night for some new hiking boots and ended up getting the same pair as I had purchased last year: They are touted as &#8216;rattlesnake proof&#8217;. I have no idea why, but some herpers view wearing this kind of thing as stupid. I personally don&#8217;t see how any extra caution could possibly [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://fieldherper.com/2008/03/18/new-stuff/</link>
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		<title>South Mountain, Phoenix AZ 03-15-08</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Kelly and I finally got out of the house to try out luck in the low 70&#8242;s weather we&#8217;ve been having. We&#8217;re both still getting over being sick so lazily poking around a local mountain was a great time. We saw a lot of side blotched (Uta stansburian) and Ornate Tree (Urosaurus ornatus) lizards, but [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://fieldherper.com/2008/03/15/south-mountain-phoenix-az-03-15-08/</link>
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		<title>Skunked: First of the Year :)</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Last night at around 5pm we got the idea to get our sick asses off the couch and maybe see if there&#8217;s something crawling on SVP. I didn&#8217;t think we&#8217;d see much, but hey &#8230; maybe. Even if I expect to see absolutely nothing, some time out driving with new music while the sun goes [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://fieldherper.com/2008/03/10/skunked-first-of-the-year/</link>
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		<title>Camera Practice</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;m unfortunately stuck at home sick on the first really nice, herp-friendly weekend of the year. That leaves my pets to be the subject of lots and lots of bad photos while I practice with my new toys.]]></description>
		<link>http://fieldherper.com/2008/03/01/camera-practice/</link>
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		<title>First Pictures with the New Camera</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I got my new camera today and it took me about two hours to unwrap everything, charge the battery, and get my first picture taken with the thing. My assumption that I&#8217;ll be needing to take a photography class or two is correct. Anyway, the first two pictures were of the dog and a lizard, [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://fieldherper.com/2008/02/26/first-pictures-with-the-new-camera/</link>
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		<title>Zigbotmedia.com</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Unrelated to herping other than in nomenclature, I&#8217;ve launched a Web site for my graphic design work. If you know anyone looking for pro-level creative services of any type, send them to zigbotmedia.com. I guess I could mention here that the logo and name are in honor of our pretty yellow female bearded dragon, Zigbot, [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://fieldherper.com/2008/02/22/zigbotmediacom/</link>
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		<title>New Camera!</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Today I took a step away from just being a herp-nerd by spending $1700+ on camera gear for the upcoming year. After months of research and thousands of reviews (not kidding, unfortunately), I got some great advice from a couple of folks at the AHA Forums and ended up getting a Canon 40D DSLR and [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://fieldherper.com/2008/02/15/new-camera/</link>
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		<title>Tough ID in the Huachuca Mountains</title>
		<description><![CDATA[&#8230; from a trip with Kris late in 2007. We were making our way down steep talus on the East end of the Huachuca mountains looking for C. lepidus when Kris saw something blue/black in a rock. It was too far to see in detail. The best I could do was take a zoomed photo [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://fieldherper.com/2007/12/05/tough-id-in-the-huachuca-mountains/</link>
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		<title>Year&#8217;s End</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Kelly and I moved into a new house last week. My free time will thus be spent pulling tape from boxes and crushing fingertips for the remainder of this season, unfortunately. Hopefully I&#8217;ll get out to the new-to-me mountains I see to the West each morning to catch some herps laying out in the last [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://fieldherper.com/2007/10/02/years-end/</link>
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		<title>Relocation 09-16-07</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I got a snake call on the 16th from the AHA and went to pick up a very aggressive diamondback. A big storm blew in just as I was leaving the house and I decided it would be better to return the next day for the release. I found a nice area about a half [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://fieldherper.com/2007/09/19/relocation-09-16-07/</link>
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		<title>My First Tiger Rattlesnake</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Kelly and I went out for a quick trip to the Superstition Mountains Saturday night, not expecting to see much due to the clear sky and weekend traffic. Surprisingly, the traffic wasn&#8217;t bad at all, though things were still slow. We saw one snake once the temperature got down to reasonable Crotalus-loving levels. The one [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://fieldherper.com/2007/09/10/my-first-tiger-rattlesnake/</link>
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		<title>Huachuca Mountains, September 1-3, 2007</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;ve been down to the South East end of Arizona several times in the past two years in search of what I&#8217;ve gathered by reading posts by other herpers on the AHA and Fieldherp forums are some of the more sought-after snakes around town. The last three trips I&#8217;ve limited the search specifically to Crotalus [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://fieldherper.com/2007/09/06/huachuca-mountains-september-1-3-2007/</link>
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		<title>Congress Area &amp; Bradshaw Mountains</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Kelly and I went up to Congress, Arizona for the weekend. I&#8217;d seen the only two speckled rattlesnakes (Crotalus mitchelli) that I&#8217;ve ever seen up there, so I thought I&#8217;d give it a try and see if I could get some good photos before the year&#8217;s out. We didn&#8217;t find one, but did find some [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://fieldherper.com/2007/08/21/congress-area-bradshaw-mountains/</link>
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		<title>Superstition Mountains, 08/07/07</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Took my friend Sonny on his first herping trip. We went to the Superstition Mountains, mostly because it&#8217;s close, and secondly because I haven&#8217;t had my fill of lyre snakes for the year. The first snake we found was my second Coral snake (Micruroides euryxanthus) for the year. We went further and stopped for some [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://fieldherper.com/2007/08/08/superstition-mountains-080707/</link>
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		<title>Sonoran Coral Snake in the Rain</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Kelly and I left Friday (August 3) for Nogales, planning to herp along the way, and try and find a Brown Vine Snake the next day. We found a faded-looking Crotalus atrox (Western Diamondback) first. Great rattle on this one. Then Kelly saw her first snake. It was a very clean looking atrox, so clean [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://fieldherper.com/2007/08/07/sonoran-coral-snake-in-the-rain/</link>
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		<title>Crotalus atrox Relocation</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Not quite a field find. Removed him from a bush in front of a home in N. Scottsdale, Arizona on my lunch break 07-02-07.]]></description>
		<link>http://fieldherper.com/2007/08/05/crotalus-atrox-relocation/</link>
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