I've had a very busy year w/ work this summer, but I did manage to get in on a trip to the rugged area of the Sierra Madre Occidental of Mexico.
We found a number of good roads to cruise at night and the first night we found a D.O.R. that had just been nicked by a car. An adult female L. t. sinaloae.
Heart breaking to see for me as the milk had only been hit 10 or 15 minutes before we picked it up.

L. t. sinaloae DOR


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The next night we cruised a different road and we found this poor milk still writhing from meeting a cars rubber wheels. Heart breaker #2.


Heart breaker #3 was found the next night, and I just didn't have the drive to document another DOR adult, but it was just like the two in the above photos.
Here's a few habitat photos from the Sierra Madre Tropical deciduous forest where the milks came from.


If it looks hot to you, let me say that it was even hotter then that. Tarzan couldn't take the heat we endured.

More milk habitat.


We did find many live animals, and it was a great trip but a live milk was not in the cards. Here is a live Coral-snake micrurus distans that I'll leave you with.


I'll try and post a few more animals later when I have more time. All for now, peace.
-Dell

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• Milk-snakes in the Sierra Madre of Mex. - terryd, Fri Sep 2 20:33:09 2011
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• Beautiful rubidus! - johnnic, Sat Sep 10 02:12:40 2011
• RE: Milk-snakes in the Sierra Madre of Mex. - Joe_M, Mon Sep 5 15:15:25 2011
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• Awesome! Thanks for posting n/p - a153fish, Wed Sep 7 20:37:47 2011