I have a species list for the Hot springs road area, Dan and anyone
else wanting it?
Marble Hot springs road
June 28th 2008
49f 75% humidity, Winds calm.
Barometer 1001MB
Common snipe
Sandhill crane
Sora
Cliff swallow
Savannah sparrow
Red-winged blackbird
Yellow-headed blackbird
White-faced ibis
Black-necked stilts
Black-crowned night heron
Wilson's phalarope
Marsh wren
American Avocet
Vesper sparrow
Western Meadowlark
Willet
American Bittern
Brewer's blackbird
brewer's sparrow
Common morehen
American Crow
Coyote
Martyn
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On Jul 2, 2008, at 9:12 PM, Dan Dugan wrote:
> I've just returned from the Nature Sounds Society's annual Field
> Recording Workshop at Yuba Pass.
>
> We were in smoke most of the time; it cleared up on Sunday. Saturday
> morning walking from my tent to the dining hall at 3:45 AM the
> crescent moon was orange.
>
> Sierra Valley was mysterious, sometimes the mountains to the north
> weren't visible. It seemed pretty dry; there was no water in the
> ditches by Marble Hot Springs Road. I set up my 4-channel array facing
> east, over the marshes, but nothing much was happening out there;
> instead there was a constant swallow-like chatter from the sagebrush
> on the west side of the road. Don't know what species that was.
>
> There were snipe, bitterns, sandhill cranes and blackbirds as usual,
> but the density seemed lighter.
>
> At the bridge there was plenty of water in the main channel, and the
> swallows were busy as usual.
>
> I was very pleased to find that Lundy Ditch has been repaired and was
> running normally, and Madora Lake is filling up again. The bullfrogs
> were back.
>
> There was a nice dawn chorus at Yuba Pass. Martyn went to Lincoln
> Meadow to do a protocol for Bernie.
>
> On the NSS/Sierra Club backpack to Jamison Lake, we saw a beautiful
> big brown bear posing in full view. Of course it split by the time my
> camera was ready.
>
> Aircraft about an hour apart there in the day. Good recording location
> with long noise-free intervals.
>
> I recorded the ambient hum of mosquitoes at dusk--they were swarming
> thick. Late at night there was no biophony--no insects, no frogs.
> There was a very nice dawn chorus, including a couple of fish splashes
> from the lake.
>
> -Dan Dugan
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