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Found this guy today about 15 feet from where I found a different pyro about two weeks ago. Both were photographed and released.

Greg

'nuther shot

one more

Nice finds Greg.

Kerby...

When it's brutal hot in Tucson (111 degrees yesterday), it sure is nice to go up in the mountains and search for these guys.

What an amazingly vibrant snake - just chillen and doing its thing in the wild. Awesome find i bet it was a lot of fun.
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Matt from Minnesota

And we complain here in "Mayberry" when it reaches 100 LOL

Still humid & dry, although other parts of the state have received some rain.

Soon..........

Kerby...

Well we have finally started to get some rain the past couple of nights in Tucson. There's a good storm going on right now. Hopefully they will come to Mayberry soon! I need to get up to Prescott and do a little herping up there. I feel like I am pretty good at finding pyros now in SE Az, but I bet it's a different ballgame up there. I may have to ask you for some advice!

Actually I do better just going hiking, than "pyro hunting". I think the pyros know I'm coming.

Kerby...

Man do I remember that out there. LOL I can't remember how many days and nights I spent looking for pyros when I lived out there. We had some good times out herping around Prescott/Bagdad/Humbolt. I do miss that about AZ. We gotta get together again and do some herpin again before we both get to old Kerby

BTW Greg that is a great looking pyro.

Chris

Thanks Chris, I have never found a pyro by flipping rocks, or looking in cracks. They have always been out in the open as I hike through their habitat. Once you figure out where they live and what time of day they are active, you just hike around and cross your fingers. Is that your experience Chris and Kerby? Usually I strike out, but I see at least 3 or 4 per summer. I became interested in pyros because I loved hiking in their habitat not the other way around, so if I strike out, I still had a great hike in the beautiful mtns!

Greg

I like going in the afternoon AFTER a monsoon rain. Or during the spring and summer in the afternoon looking in the shadows. They can obviously be found all the time because a lot of people have mentioned finding them in the early mornings. I too have never flipped one, BUT I rarely flip rocks/logs in Arizona. I also have never found one on the road but I have found road kills.

Here I live in the Prescott area and I rarely go "pyro hunting". Always seem to be going somewhere else....LOL

Kerby...

Only some of the spots that we used to go to are gone. The development here is unreal. I need to go buy my mountain and put up my fence.

Kerby...

I like all those crossovers. If he had a few more it would look even cooler! Nice pics and thanks for sharing them.
Todd Hughes

One day, in my dreams...