I was using neonates or young individuals as 6 months or younger, which we have more of.



What HMK mentioned was newborns, as in when we find a clutch. Like you, we really dislike messing with such a situation. In reality, we have avoided this type of contact. Which is not very scientific, when it surely eases our minds. But as Hugh mentioned, we have discussed different approaches to this, that are more non-contact. When I say more non-contact that means we will most likely disturb some, but use cameras and close ups to identify most clutches. That is, if we are lucky enough to find several clutches.



I think I may have mentioned this before, but I find this observation to be outa hand. Once I took these fellas out and found an adult blacktail. I lifted it up, and to my surprise, it was coiled on top of a whole clutch of rock rattlesnakes, 6, to be exact. I searched around and found the mother a foot or so away. What the heck was that blacktail doing? to make it worse, a few months before, I looked in a rock crack and found a blacktailed coiled up, with an adult rock rattlesnake coiled right on top of it. In the same spot. Happy thanksgiving. FR

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