Does anyone has any suggestions on where I can catch bird and especially
frog choruses in the Bay Area?
I'm assuming I'd have to go up north a bit to escape the ruckus of the SF
Bay Area but a specific area would be highly appreciated.
Thanks all.
Kevin Durr
On Sun, Mar 5, 2017 at 10:50 AM, Bernie Krause
[naturerecordists] <> wrote:
>
>
> With the wet northern California winter, we had Pacific chorus frogs as
> early as Xmas, and bird-song as early as late January. Our feeder has dra=
wn
> house-finches w/ *yellow *heads, and red crossbills, phenomena we=92ve
> never seen or heard before this early (although the dawn choruses around
> here have tended to begin and peak a couple weeks earlier then when I fir=
st
> began recording 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 rescue center where it has a good chance of recovery.
>
> We=92ll begin recording dawn choruses in the next 10 days or so=85as soon=
as
> the weather breaks, again.
>
> Bernie
>
>
> On Mar 5, 2017, at 10:37 AM, [naturerecordists] <
> > wrote:
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>
>
> Martyn and Ray,
>
> 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
> definitely early, while I would guess that the Tundra Swans are early as
> well (65 reported in the local area).
>
> All the best,
> Ernie Jardine
> Pickering Ontario
>
>
> www.birdsongidentification.com
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>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Ray Mansell [naturerecordists] <
> >
> To: naturerecordists <>
> Sent: Mon, Feb 27, 2017 2:24 pm
> Subject: Re: [Nature Recordists] Early frog singing
>
> 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 first appearance around April 1st. This year, we heard them two day=
s
> ago, on February 25th. They are at least a month early.
>
> Ray
>
> On Tue, Feb 21, 2017 at 10:58 PM, Martyn Stewart
> [naturerecordists] <> 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.
> I have 15 years data from this area and in all that time the frogs start
> to sing around the beginning of March.
> This recording is from the night of the 12th of February.
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