Pretty close Rich =96 good description of the terrain. Center of Oregon
yes, but not quite the center of quiet. I abandoned my first camp
when three pickup trucks and a trailer full of ATVs showed up. I
passed on the SE slope because cows were grazing there. I have no
GPS, so the coordinates I gave were estimated using TOPO maps and
GoogleEarth, neither which showed the small road I was camped on nor
the quarry that was just below me on the NW slope of the hill. I
must check out Worldwind, though I better set it aside for now and
get back to the grindstone on some other stuff I got to get done this
week.
John Hartog
--- In "Rich Peet" <>
wrote:
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> --- In Doug Von Gausig <doug@>
wrote:
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> > That's a Common Poorwill. You gave us coordinates, but it would be
> great to
> > just tell us where you are - in the SW US, I assume?
> >
>
> Looks like right in the middle of Oregon in the middle of "quiet".
> Towards the top of a hot SE facing gradual slope at about 5,000ft
> elevation with scattered trees on grassland without an understory.
> Distant barren land but this does not appear barren where the
> recording was made. Just based on looking at google earth and
> worldwind. Just cut and past the coordinates given into google earth
> and then for further checking you can look at the 1 meter black and
> white photo and topo at worldwind.
>
> Rich
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