No sounds to go with this wonderful description? :)
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Suzanne
Suzanne Williams Photography
http://web.tampabay.rr.com/swilli41/www
Florida, USA
--- In Dan Dugan <> wrote:
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> 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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