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Took a trip out west of Phoenix and did some serious hiking/climbing.

We sort of did a little hike into the Harquahalas, and came upon a mine shaft. Unfortunately, it only yielded one lonely Red-spotted Toad:

Nothing was moving there except the Utas, so we decided to leave the Harq's and check out some cliffs accross the way instead.

This is a view looking back at the Harq's after we did some climbing:

On the way up, we found this Blacktail Rattlesnake:

Near the top, we found this feisty little Speckled Rattlesnake:

And on the way down, this little Banded Gecko was flipped. Looks like something took a bite out of it recently:

That's all I got for this time. Hopefully things start moving soon!
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Diego

Diego & Tiffany's Zoo:
SNAKES
1.4.0 Corn Snakes (Different morphs)
1.1.0 Hypo Everglades Rat Snakes
1.1.0 Baird's Rat Snakes
1.1.0 Trans-Pecos Rat Snakes
1.1.0 Trinket Rat Snake
1.0.0 Japanese Rat Snake
1.1.0 Salt and Pepper Bull Snakes
0.1.0 Amel Pacific Gopher Snake
2.1.0 Sonoran Gopher Snakes
0.1.0 Amel Sonoran Gopher Snakes
1.1.0 Mexican Black Kingsnake
1.0.0 Gray Banded Kingsnakes
1.0.0 Hypermelanistic California Kingsnake
0.1.0 Albino High White California Kingsnake
0.1.0 California Kingsnakes
1.1.0 Thayeri Kingsnake
1.1.0 Boa Constrictors
3.0.0 Rosy Boas (Harquahala, Mexican & Mid Baja)
0.1.0 Kenyan Sand Boas
0.1.0 Indonesian Dwarf Pacific Boa
1.1.0 Ball Pythons
1.1.0 Cape York Spotted Pythons
1.1.0 Western Hognoses
1.1.0 Red Sided Garter Snakes

LIZARDS
1.0.0 Frilled Dragon
3.1.0 Bearded Dragons (2 Normal, 1 RedXGold, 1 Citrus)
0.1.0 Eastern Collared Lizard
1.0.0 African Fat-Tail Gecko
0.1.0 Merauke Blue Tongue Skink
1.4.0 Leopard Geckos
1.0.1 Yellow Niger Uromastyx
1.1.0 Chuckwalla
0.1.0 Banded Gecko
0.0.1 Gold Dust Day Gecko

FROGS
2.2.0 Southern Bell Frogs
1.0.1 Green Tree Frogs
1.0.0 Bubbling Kassina
1.1.1 White's Tree Frogs
0.0.2 Gold Frogs

Very nice!

Those 2 shots of the lepidus are great!

I'm heading out to Phoenix for Memorial Day weekend (annual hockey tourney), and HOPE to get out at least 1 night to do some herping if I have any energy!

Anybody going to be around/up for some night outings?

//Todd

Thanks Todd.

I if you mean the Speck, it's a mitchelli.

Dude, there's always someone willing to go out. Shoot me an email and we'll figure something out for you.
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Diego

Diego & Tiffany's Zoo:
SNAKES
1.4.0 Corn Snakes (Different morphs)
1.1.0 Hypo Everglades Rat Snakes
1.1.0 Baird's Rat Snakes
1.1.0 Trans-Pecos Rat Snakes
1.1.0 Trinket Rat Snake
1.0.0 Japanese Rat Snake
1.1.0 Salt and Pepper Bull Snakes
0.1.0 Amel Pacific Gopher Snake
2.1.0 Sonoran Gopher Snakes
0.1.0 Amel Sonoran Gopher Snakes
1.1.0 Mexican Black Kingsnake
1.0.0 Gray Banded Kingsnakes
1.0.0 Hypermelanistic California Kingsnake
0.1.0 Albino High White California Kingsnake
0.1.0 California Kingsnakes
1.1.0 Thayeri Kingsnake
1.1.0 Boa Constrictors
3.0.0 Rosy Boas (Harquahala, Mexican & Mid Baja)
0.1.0 Kenyan Sand Boas
0.1.0 Indonesian Dwarf Pacific Boa
1.1.0 Ball Pythons
1.1.0 Cape York Spotted Pythons
1.1.0 Western Hognoses
1.1.0 Red Sided Garter Snakes

LIZARDS
1.0.0 Frilled Dragon
3.1.0 Bearded Dragons (2 Normal, 1 RedXGold, 1 Citrus)
0.1.0 Eastern Collared Lizard
1.0.0 African Fat-Tail Gecko
0.1.0 Merauke Blue Tongue Skink
1.4.0 Leopard Geckos
1.0.1 Yellow Niger Uromastyx
1.1.0 Chuckwalla
0.1.0 Banded Gecko
0.0.1 Gold Dust Day Gecko

FROGS
2.2.0 Southern Bell Frogs
1.0.1 Green Tree Frogs
1.0.0 Bubbling Kassina
1.1.1 White's Tree Frogs
0.0.2 Gold Frogs

I have herped that little mountain/ridge across from the harqs several times. It is a neat place, but those black rocks get BLAZING hot in the summer.

I was photographing a chuckwalla there one day and crouched right on top of a coiled blacktail. I would have taken a very bad bite (you know the old joke about having to find someone to suck the venom out). Fortunately, blacktails are usually kittens.

We have found 5 species of rattlesnake on that road in about 30 minutes one summer night.
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Chris Harrison
San Antonio, Texas

Ouch! That would have sucked (pun intended)!

I absolutely love that road. It's my favorite place right now.

We were at the top of the bluffs overlooking the road and we also was a pair of Red-tailed Hawks doing a courtship dance in the air. It was unbelievable. Unfortunately, I was too slow on the draw with the camera...
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Diego

Diego & Tiffany's Zoo:
SNAKES
1.4.0 Corn Snakes (Different morphs)
1.1.0 Hypo Everglades Rat Snakes
1.1.0 Baird's Rat Snakes
1.1.0 Trans-Pecos Rat Snakes
1.1.0 Trinket Rat Snake
1.0.0 Japanese Rat Snake
1.1.0 Salt and Pepper Bull Snakes
0.1.0 Amel Pacific Gopher Snake
2.1.0 Sonoran Gopher Snakes
0.1.0 Amel Sonoran Gopher Snakes
1.1.0 Mexican Black Kingsnake
1.0.0 Gray Banded Kingsnakes
1.0.0 Hypermelanistic California Kingsnake
0.1.0 Albino High White California Kingsnake
0.1.0 California Kingsnakes
1.1.0 Thayeri Kingsnake
1.1.0 Boa Constrictors
3.0.0 Rosy Boas (Harquahala, Mexican & Mid Baja)
0.1.0 Kenyan Sand Boas
0.1.0 Indonesian Dwarf Pacific Boa
1.1.0 Ball Pythons
1.1.0 Cape York Spotted Pythons
1.1.0 Western Hognoses
1.1.0 Red Sided Garter Snakes

LIZARDS
1.0.0 Frilled Dragon
3.1.0 Bearded Dragons (2 Normal, 1 RedXGold, 1 Citrus)
0.1.0 Eastern Collared Lizard
1.0.0 African Fat-Tail Gecko
0.1.0 Merauke Blue Tongue Skink
1.4.0 Leopard Geckos
1.0.1 Yellow Niger Uromastyx
1.1.0 Chuckwalla
0.1.0 Banded Gecko
0.0.1 Gold Dust Day Gecko

FROGS
2.2.0 Southern Bell Frogs
1.0.1 Green Tree Frogs
1.0.0 Bubbling Kassina
1.1.1 White's Tree Frogs
0.0.2 Gold Frogs

Great pics. I'm looking forward to herping AZ a couple of times this year. I love Blacktails. They're one of the most beautiful Crotalids.

reako45

Thanks! Let me know when you are coming down!
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Diego

Diego & Tiffany's Zoo:
SNAKES
1.2.0 Corn Snakes (Different morphs)
1.1.0 Hypo Everglades Rat Snakes
1.1.0 Baird's Rat Snakes
1.1.0 Trans-Pecos Rat Snakes
1.1.0 Salt and Pepper Bull Snakes
0.1.0 Amel Pacific Gopher Snake
2.1.0 Sonoran Gopher Snakes
0.1.0 Amel Sonoran Gopher Snakes
1.1.0 Mexican Black Kingsnake
1.0.0 Gray Banded Kingsnake
1.0.0 Hypermelanistic California Kingsnake
0.1.0 Albino High White California Kingsnake
0.1.0 California Kingsnakes
1.1.0 Thayeri Kingsnake
1.1.0 Boa Constrictors
3.0.0 Rosy Boas (Harquahala, Mexican & Mid Baja)
0.1.0 Kenyan Sand Boas
0.1.0 Indonesian Dwarf Pacific Boa
1.1.0 Ball Pythons
1.1.0 Cape York Spotted Pythons
1.1.0 Western Hognoses
1.1.0 Red Sided Garter Snakes

LIZARDS
1.0.0 Frilled Dragon
3.1.0 Bearded Dragons (2 Normal, 1 RedXGold, 1 Citrus)
0.1.0 Eastern Collared Lizard
1.0.0 African Fat-Tail Gecko
0.1.0 Merauke Blue Tongue Skink
1.4.0 Leopard Geckos
1.0.1 Yellow Niger Uromastyx
1.1.0 Chuckwalla
0.1.0 Banded Gecko
0.0.1 Gold Dust Day Gecko

FROGS
1.0.1 Green Tree Frogs
1.0.0 Bubbling Kassina
0.0.1 White's Tree Frog
0.0.2 Gold Frogs