With the wet northern California winter, we had Pacific chorus frogs as ear=
ly as Xmas, and bird-song as early as late January. Our feeder has drawn ho=
use-finches w/ yellow heads, and red crossbills, phenomena we=92ve never se=
en or heard before this early (although the dawn choruses around here have =
tended to begin and peak a couple weeks earlier then when I first began rec=
ording in this area in 1993).
Today, my wife and I found a badly injured red-tailed hawk on our property,=
covered it gently with a soft blanket and took it to the nearby bird rescu=
e center where it has a good chance of recovery.
We=92ll begin recording dawn choruses in the next 10 days or so=85as soon a=
s the weather breaks, again.
Bernie
> On Mar 5, 2017, at 10:37 AM, [naturerecordists] <naturere=
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> Martyn and Ray,
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> A friend had Woodcocks "Peenting" in a nearby field, this week, and I had=
17 Tundra Swans flying over (just east of Toronto). The Woodcocks are defi=
nitely early, while I would guess that the Tundra Swans are early as well (=
65 reported in the local area).
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> All the best,
> Ernie Jardine
> Pickering Ontario
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> From: Ray Mansell <> [n=
aturerecordists] < <naturerecordists=
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> To: naturerecordists < <naturereco=
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> Sent: Mon, Feb 27, 2017 2:24 pm
> Subject: Re: [Nature Recordists] Early frog singing
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> For several years I participated in the (now sadly defunct) annual NAAMP =
survey. The first 'window', during which we expected to hear Spring Peepers=
, was March 20th to April 16th. Typically, the Peepers would make their fir=
st appearance around April 1st. This year, we heard them two days ago, on F=
ebruary 25th. They are at least a month early.
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> Ray
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> On Tue, Feb 21, 2017 at 10:58 PM, Martyn Stewart <m=
ailto:> [naturerecordists] <=
ps.com <>> wrote:
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> In all the years I have been monitoring this specific site, i have never =
heard pacific chorus frogs singing this early before.
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> I have 15 years data from this area and in all that time the frogs start =
to sing around the beginning of March.
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> This recording is from the night of the 12th of February.
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