IT SUCKED.
Started off from Ozona at sunset, herped our way south down Pandale Rd., saw one small atrox on the center stripe.
We continued south, decided against heading down dirt Pandale to Langtry since we were in a gas guzzling older Bronco. We went down paved pandale instead. I don't like that road, seldom see anything on it. Ronnie was curious about the road from Pandale road over to Juno Rd. I had driven it in the 70's and it was a miserable rough road, very narrow, the type of road on which you eventually stop looking for herps and start praying that it will soon end. It has been widened and graded and wasn't too bad, although a bit bumpmy.
We hit Juno Rd. about 11PM. We had seen scattered rains around the area when it was still light. Juno Rd. looked a bit damp and the temps were dropping and my sinuses told me the barometric pressure was high so we decided to head on home. We went up 189 to 277, saw nothing. At the intersection of 277 it was perhaps 68F and almost no wind. We hunted our way into Sonora, tanked up. Out of sonora we back roaded it, heading east on 190 and then north toward Mertzon and Abilene.
The atrox was all we saw so far as herps. Lots of deer, a few armadillos, some rabbits, a couple 'possum, a juvenile striped skunk, a few DOR porcupines and a bobcat.
