If you like mountain kings heres some eye candy 4 ya

[Hazpat]

This year we decided to hold off on the pulchra post till things slowed down a bit. No need to give lurkers the info they didn't earn right? It hasn't really slowed down to much but I think this was the last good weekend till more rain comes so here we go.

Anyways Starting on St HazPatricks Day we hit the Mountains each Saturday, man its been good, on the holiday we found 16, yup 16, then the next weekend 5 then yesterday 9. Needless to say the Zs have been good to us this year. 30 pulchra in 3 days is good right?
Participants; Billboard, Lamprophil, Shatty, SoCal Herper, Yani, Strikedistance and his dad Rich, and HazPat of course.
Gota give it up to bill he fliped 17 of the 30!

Pagan rituals always help with #s

Up till March 17 2007 I had yet to flip my own Z under my own rock. I kicked that monkey off my back with a tripple! WAHOO!

Not all are perfect but some are

Still some snow around

Lots of black on this guy

Oh yea we did see a few gophers as well

 

[geckodan]

What is the normal adult size for that species (I always presumed they where 3-4 ft) ??

 

[Hazpat]

pulchra is a smaller subspecies, we would consider 3 foot animals very large they are typicly 2 1/2 feet we did find 3 or 4 in the 3 foot range though. Babies are much smaller

The algamas (baja subspecies) tend to get much larger I have seen one 4 footer but thats the biggest Ive seen.

 

[Nathan Hall]

Love the pics!!!

 

[modoki]

Great Z's. Thanks for sharing .

Cheers

Thomas