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I've put 174 alterna into a MS excel database. I haven't yet figured out how to do calculations with it so can't give averages, but here is a bit of data
Low temp: 68
High temp: 92 (air temps)
median temp: 82

Earliest: 9:52 PM
Latest: 4:38 AM
number caught before midnight: 118
after midnight: 55

This is not my entire collecting notes. Some I didn't put down data for and I think I missed a year or two when entering. It was not a fun job.

John

posting that.I guess I was way lucky with that buffalo creek three years ago at 4:30 a.m since you haven't found but one past that it looks like.
Shannon

You can always count on John for the technical info. I've always said that he's the "shizzle".

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Steve W.

Steve,thats just a incredible find LOL.We were really bored that night man.I liked the amel frog better.
L8r

This is what Bob Assetto put out this year. Aaron almost ate it. lol

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Steve W.

toliet paper there on top lol

I thought "WTF, a sausage?"

Troy

my earliest in the evening was 9:08 pm (in late August). Actually, the sky was lighter and brighter for my 2nd alterna at 9:14 pm (in mid-June).

my latest in the morning was 4:20 am . . . unless you want to count the one I found at 8:05 am on Juno that had been clipped and survived. I doubt that it had been clipped long, given that the tire testers had been by once already.

Exactly half of my 44 were found in the a.m. hours, with the other half being found in the p.m. hours. Put another way, I've found 22 before midnight, 21 after, and 1 in the morning when I was looking for hognoses LOL.

Troy

>>Earliest: 9:52 PM

On May 31, 2000 I found my first live alterna AOR on Juno road at 8:35, several minutes BEFORE sunset. I was just running the road for a quick roadkill/debris removal run at 40 mph and found him crossing the road in broad daylight.

My second alterna was found DOR at 8:45 in late April 2001.
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Chris Harrison
San Antonio, Texas