Zonata Collecting Records

Perhaps no other sort of "rock-flippin'" is as much fun as searching for California Mt Kings in the Spring.  Lifting a rock to see a vivid red, black, and white snake shining in the morning or evening sunlight is a sight that no herper ever forgets.  We started hunting zonata in 1997, and try to get out to California every few years.  We have limited locale information to Mountain Range in order to protect sensitive rock outcrops.  Note, although we've found zonata in the protected San Diego County and Mexican populations, those were photographed and released, and those zonata that we have encountered elsewhere were also mostly released, only keeping a few and staying within bag limits.

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Date

Locale

Details

Photo

1

4/26/97

San Jacinto Mts

juvenile female under rock at 1000 hrs; Troy Hibbitts

2

5/27/98

San Jacinto Mts

adult female under rock at 0830 hrs; Marla Hibbitts

3

5/29/98

San Jacinto Mts

adult female under rock at 0815 hrs; Troy Hibbitts

4

6/01/98

Bass Lake area

juvenile male under rock at 1340 hrs; Troy Hibbitts

5

6/02/98

Bass Lake area

adult female found under rock at 1000 hrs; Terry Hibbitts

6

3/22/00

San Jacinto Mts

juvenile female under rock at 1615 hrs; Troy Hibbitts

7

3/23/00

Laguna Mts

adult female under rock at 1600 hrs; Troy Hibbitts

8

3/24/00

Sierra Juarez

adult female under rock at 1640 hrs; Troy Hibbitts

9

5/12/00

San Bernardino Mts

juv male under board at 1130 hrs; Toby Hibbitts

10

3/21/01

Santa Cruz Mts

adult male under rock at about 1500 hrs; Troy Hibbitts

11

3/23/01

Cuyamaca Mts

adult male under rock at 1300 hrs; Troy Hibbitts

12

3/23/01

Laguna Mts

adult pair under rock (#13) at 1600 hrs; Troy & Marla Hibbitts

13

3/23/01

Laguna Mts

adult pair under rock (#13) at 1600 hrs; Troy & Marla Hibbitts

14

4/27/01

San Jacinto Mts

juvenile male under rock at 1800 hrs; Troy Hibbitts

15

4/28/01

San Jacinto Mts

adult female under rock at 1000 hrs; Troy Hibbitts

16

4/28/01

San Jacinto Mts

juvenile female under rock at 1130 hrs; Troy Hibbitts

18

4/28/01

San Jacinto Mts

juvenile female under rock at 1215 hrs; Troy Hibbitts

19

3/21/02

Laguna Mts

juvenile male under rock at 1500 hrs; snow around rocks; Troy Hibbitts

20

5/29/06

Kern Canyon

juvenile male AOR at 1855 hrs; Troy & Marla Hibbitts

21

5/30/06

Greenhorn Mts

 adult male under rock at 1400 hrs; Troy Hibbitts

22

5/31/06

Kern Plateau

 adult male AOR at 1200 hrs; Troy & Marla Hibbitts

23

5/31/06

Kern Plateau

 adult pair under same rock at 1215 hrs; Troy Hibbitts

24

5/31/06

Kern Plateau

 adult pair under same rock at 1215 hrs; Troy Hibbitts

25

6/03/06

Kern Plateau

 juvenile female out crawling on outcrop at 2000 hrs; Troy Hibbitts