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Field temps and to some degree humidity

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Posted by: FR at Fri Apr 11 11:11:53 2014  [ Report Abuse ] [ Email Message ] [ Show All Posts by FR ]  
   

This is a series of pics taken two days ago. Its on my site which has lots and lots of hognose. This time of year there is very little surface activity. Which means the snakes are doing what they do, in the ground.
The temps were taken at 9:30 am, you can tell from the shadows. Exactly where hogs live.

Second pic, 2 inches down

Six inches down;

Heres a Mohave rattlesnake sitting in the shade at 4:00 pm. In the shade of a bush in fairly high temps
here is a closer shot showing the snake is has made a pallet, where the snake is slightly in the ground, this is done to regulate temps. The cooler in ground temps vs. the hotter surface temps.
Also the surface of the ground is lite and totally dry, once I dug in a few inches, the ground was moist and dark, you can see that in the deeper pics. As you can see, while our air temps are high, the mass temps are not and anything greater then a few inches is cool. At this time of year, the air humidity is very low. The snakes rarely use the surface until the mass temps warm up and it rains to increase the surface humidity. ITs then they use the surface more commonly. Until then, at this site, they are stuck in an underground existence. Its were they live. Questions the snake pics will be in part 2


   

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