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Up in the Sierra Madre, we head out in search of montane rattlesnakes and later, some road cruising.

A misty mountain morning, stopping for coffee at the Pemex station.	Off we go in search of little montane rattlesnakes.	Beautiful agave	Working the oak juniper hillside.
The little buggers could be anywhere.	Interesting flowers that I haven't identified yet.	CJ spotted this little guy.	Chihuahua Ridgenose Rattlesnake, Crotalus willardi silus!
But wait - there's more!		The spot and the man on the spot.	Where silus lives.
Tough ferns among the cactus.	Century Plant.		The tail end of a Mountain Skink (Plestiodon callicephalus).
	Unidnetified flower		Giant Water Bug.
			Penstemon.
Wild Begonia.	Aphonopelma mooreae. Awesome.
The Hyundai Performance Team!	Kris and Erik at the Hotel King.	The road out of Yecora.
Dell and CJ shootin'	Dell's silus
	The little lavender silus.
	Bucket of crotey goodness.	Geophis dugesii aquilonaris, formal portrait.
The biggest silus		Nylons make good snake bags...	Juvenile Mexican Lyre Snake (Trimorphodon tau tau)
		Another shrine to Our Lady.
	Our Lady of Guadalupe, watching over travellers and little serpents alike.	Juvenile Thamnophis cyrtopsis cyrtopsis
Opaque adult cyrtopsis	Sonoran Night Snake, Hypsiglena ochrophaeus ochrophaeus.
			Just-morphed Canyon Treefrog (Hyla arenicolor)
Sonoran Mud turtle (Kinosternon sonoriense)
Home of the mud turkle.	Gastrophryne olivacea mazatlanensis, eating ants under a rock....	Canyon Treefrog (Hyla arenicolor)	Red-Spotted Toad (Anaxyrus punctatus)
	Heading out to road cruise in the rain.	Near Los Pilares	Los Pilares, on the road to Maycoba
		Erik, Kris, Dell, CJ, Shaun, and Tim at Los Pilares	Caramba! Mexican Blacktail (Crotalus molussus nigrescens)
	Mighty morphing Red-Spot Toadlet	arenicolor	Madrean Treefrog (Hyla eximia)
Madrean Treefrog (Hyla eximia) - calling male	Gastrophryne olivacea mazatlanensis	Gastrophryne olivacea mazatlanensis	another Mexican Blacktail in the rain....
CJ and Tim bucket that bad boy		Bucket of Blackies	Sad but exciting - a Tarahumara Salamander (Ambystoma rosaceum rosaceum)
Poor little guy had to be euthanized. :(	DOR Blacktail.

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