>> For TC, my wife just saw a fresh DOR diamondback next to our mailbox and a DOR longnose down the street. If you would have asked, I would have explained, large adults(breeders) are no longer moving around(normally), its mainly subadults and juvi's that move on the surface in winter. But abnormal happens, it happens because it can happen. The adults here are now gathering in pairs and small groups to spend the winter together. While the others are doing what they need to do. FR



FR, that's interesting since it was cool mid-70's today in Green Valley and a low of around 43*F. Of course it might be warmer in Tucson. Were they adults or other?



It makes sense that adults go down first, because it's the babies and juves that feed longer in our captives too. When I lived in CA I found young of the species all winter under surface objects, but they weren't very active.



Our snakes in n. MI have all gone under by early Oct. as I mentioned before. I'm sure there's hanky, panky going on down in the 55*F zone, but I have a question for ya. Why is it they always are breeding and getting knocked up at the same time every year in the spring? It's like clockwork because they lay their eggs at about the same few days each year and hatchings are at just about the same time. ASAMOF, almost all the babies born live and the babies from eggs are on the surface at about the same time every summer, around the second week of August. Now that I think about it, that's about the time I'm seeing babies in AZ, haha.



Thanks for the post...TC

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