Most productive area I’ve seen for AZ blacks is some of the less trampled canyons and creeks around Sedona, especially alone the back route to Flagstaff (grad school alma mater). Best for me was the one massasauga we got in extreme S AZ right on NM border. We were in between sites and traveling fast. As soon as we saw it my buddy swerved and we both started yelling like John Goodman and William Forsyth when they thought they left the baby on top of the car in raising Arizona. EZ:! “did I hit it???” Me: “IDT think so!” “Is it what I think it is???!!!” “I DO think so!” We must have been doing 60+mph, and weren’t sure how far to backtrack. But then we saw swerving tire marks on the road. 😂 Took a bit to find it in the grass but wetubed it, and got some awesome pics with a BP agent who stopped to see what we were doings Sorry for long comment, but just discovered you guys and wanted to share. Spent 15 years in AZ and miss it much. So obsessed with the desert, I gave my daughter the middle name, Sonora! Thanks for the great content. Think I’ll go Herping here in AR tonight! Need a Pygmy rattler. Only one I saw I didn’t see soon enough and ran over ☹️. My undergrad advisor was behind me and really chewed my butt. He wrote the Amphibians and Reptiles of Arkansas. 😂
I like your videos, but that wind noise is tough to take.
Happy Herping.
Great video. Watching the clouds come over the mountains was amazing. Great finds too ! My crew is out that way right now. And I’m stuck at home. 😢
Most productive area I’ve seen for AZ blacks is some of the less trampled canyons and creeks around Sedona, especially alone the back route to Flagstaff (grad school alma mater).
Best for me was the one massasauga we got in extreme S AZ right on NM border. We were in between sites and traveling fast.
As soon as we saw it my buddy swerved and we both started yelling like John Goodman and William Forsyth when they thought they left the baby on top of the car in raising Arizona.
EZ:! “did I hit it???”
Me: “IDT think so!”
“Is it what I think it is???!!!”
“I DO think so!”
We must have been doing 60+mph, and weren’t sure how far to backtrack. But then we saw swerving tire marks on the road. 😂
Took a bit to find it in the grass but wetubed it, and got some awesome pics with a BP agent who stopped to see what we were doings
Sorry for long comment, but just discovered you guys and wanted to share. Spent 15 years in AZ and miss it much. So obsessed with the desert, I gave my daughter the middle name, Sonora!
Thanks for the great content. Think I’ll go Herping here in AR tonight! Need a Pygmy rattler. Only one I saw I didn’t see soon enough and ran over ☹️. My undergrad advisor was behind me and really chewed my butt. He wrote the Amphibians and Reptiles of Arkansas. 😂