WEDNESDAY - CERBAT MOUNTAINS (AZ)
The next day I took a trip to Arizona to check out what was going on in the Cerbat Mountains.

I wasn't expecting to see a big green lizard in the road, but it was only there for a moment before it bolted.

The Great Basin Collared Lizards that I'm used to seeing are earthtone in color. I soon realized that I was looking at lifer #2 - Eastern Collared Lizard.

Southwestern Prickly Poppy

Do you know what the deadliest killer is?

Plateau Fence Lizards were the most commonly seen reptile.

A trusty (rented) Toyota that travelled 2,500 miles by the end of the week.

The Giant Agave Bug lives up to its name - those things are huge.

Some movement in the underbrush revealed lifer #3: a Gila Spotted Whiptail.

A friendly reminder.

As I descended the mountains, I decided that I'd come back later to go night herping.

But first, who ever said that you can't combine firearms with food?

The first night find was lifer #4 of the trip: an Arizona Glossy Snake.

I was pretty stoked about the Glossy.

Cow.

This Speckled Rattlesnake was the second of three different rattlesnake species that I found on the trip.

I ended the night by finding this Gopher Snake. Here he is waiting to get his picture taken.

This is probably a Sonoran/Great Basin Gopher Snake intergrade.