Hazpat
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Me and a few friends decided on searching Escondido today for rosy boas. The day started off very quik with one of us fiding a coachwhip under a washing machine, being the first object fliped we were all very exited and ready to hike further back into the rocks. On the way to the rocky areas I came across some tins that yielded an alligator lizard and an exeptionaly marked long nosed snake with tons of red.
After the longnosed it was a good 15 minute till the next find which was an absolutely gigantic red diamond rattlesnake she was esily a baseballbat and a half thick, biggest one any of us had ever seen, thats 40-50 collective years of field experience!
At the end of the day on the way back to the car a granite nite lizard was flipped, it almost made us want to check some more spots but the lactic acid in our legs had the final say on that! The day ended up being a decent day but no rosies were found
, it was still a little to wet under the rocks :? oh well, there's allways next time.
totals
5 Red Diamond Rattlesnakes
1 Longnosed Snake
1 Coachwhip
2 Gilberts Skinks (one was actually basking on a rock!)
1 Granite Nite Lizard
1 Western Toad
4 Granite Spiny Lizards
and a bunch of Fence Lizards
Photos
Habitat Shots
Coachwhip
Longnosed
Western Toad
This is the only shot I could get of the big Red Diamond, She wedged under a huge rock
While taking the above shot I was crouched on a rock that ended up having this guy under it. Very unnerving! I didnt get a good shot of him either, its funny how the most photogenic snake of the trip was the Coachwhip
Granite Nite Lizard, bad shot again I know sorry!
I always like finding this sort of thing as well
After the longnosed it was a good 15 minute till the next find which was an absolutely gigantic red diamond rattlesnake she was esily a baseballbat and a half thick, biggest one any of us had ever seen, thats 40-50 collective years of field experience!
At the end of the day on the way back to the car a granite nite lizard was flipped, it almost made us want to check some more spots but the lactic acid in our legs had the final say on that! The day ended up being a decent day but no rosies were found
, it was still a little to wet under the rocks :? oh well, there's allways next time. totals
5 Red Diamond Rattlesnakes
1 Longnosed Snake
1 Coachwhip
2 Gilberts Skinks (one was actually basking on a rock!)
1 Granite Nite Lizard
1 Western Toad
4 Granite Spiny Lizards
and a bunch of Fence Lizards
Photos
Habitat Shots
Coachwhip
Longnosed
Western Toad
This is the only shot I could get of the big Red Diamond, She wedged under a huge rock
While taking the above shot I was crouched on a rock that ended up having this guy under it. Very unnerving! I didnt get a good shot of him either, its funny how the most photogenic snake of the trip was the Coachwhip
Granite Nite Lizard, bad shot again I know sorry!
I always like finding this sort of thing as well
