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82 degrees today. The season cant get here quick enough.

Aren't you seeing any "baskers", yet?

TC

I am sure there are baskers out but with classes and all I havent had a chance to get out yet. Maybe not this weekend but the one after that I will have time.

Chip

>>I am sure there are baskers out but with classes and all I havent had a chance to get out yet. Maybe not this weekend but the one after that I will have time.
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>>Chip

Good luck. Maybe you'll get some lizard pics, at least, you can post.

TC

This is a diamondback from a valley den site from 2003...

Here are some shots from last year. You may have already seen them. I'm ready to get out again this year. So hopefully the weekend after this one.

http://www.angelfire.com/oz/arizona/index.html

Chip

Gravid female cerb at her gestation site in early June, still covered in mud from hibernation.

she has shed her skin.

who is also gravid!

Here's another diamondback covered with dirt, etc...last spring at the den site. First ones out, just lying in the sun, sleeping....

Good luck this spring at the den site. Hopefully you'll be able to catch some good social interactions. If I remember right, isn't that site made of man-made debris? Concrete slabs etc? Since social and reproductive behaviour in crotes is my favorite subject I am just trying to get an idea of which species are adaptable enough to move to new denning areas or accept man made sites.

>>Good luck this spring at the den site. Hopefully you'll be able to catch some good social interactions. If I remember right, isn't that site made of man-made debris? Concrete slabs etc? Since social and reproductive behaviour in crotes is my favorite subject I am just trying to get an idea of which species are adaptable enough to move to new denning areas or accept man made sites.

Hi, Rich. It is a man-made site in a sense. The hillsides are natural, but the debris dumped in the area is man-made. At first I thought I was seeing scutelatus basking alongside and under the slabs, but eventually found that they were all atrox. I was swayed to think scutes because I had seen plenty on the roads nearby, more than the atrox. But then only atrox at the den sites. I guess that might tell us something.

Terry

Nice shots. Where about in AZ are ya? Close to Tucson?

Chip

I was born in and spent most of my life in Tucson but I live in Flagstaff now. I do plan on returning to the Tucson area again when I retire. Probably have to fight the wife tooth and nail though. She was born here in Flag and wants to stay. May have to keep a house in both places, lol.

I was going to check a few den sites this weekend. But got tied up
around the house. I did noose seven fence lizards today. So they
should be out for a little while.

>>I was going to check a few den sites this weekend. But got tied up
>>around the house. I did noose seven fence lizards today. So they
>>should be out for a little while.

Good luck finding stuff. I'll be in Green Valley for a few days near the end of March. I'll probably get another shot at photographing snakes coming out of hibernation then. Supposed to get some rain Sunday, Monday, coming up.

TC

We need more rain though.
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