We enjoyed the eclipse here too, in Portland, Oregon, though too much urban din
to tell of any animal quietening - plus it was not quite dusk up here yet.
However, I found the eclipse personally quietening while I quietly transplanted
a few things in my vegetable garden.
John Hartog
rockscallop.org
--- In Bernie Krause <> wrote:
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> We just enjoyed the darkest part of the annular eclipse that swung
> across N. America and our part of California. While it wasn't total,
> here, what we noticed the most was the incredible silence. Normally,
> this time of night one hears a lovely dusk chorus (frogs and about 30
> species of birds). But not this time.
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> Bernie
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