Thanks for the very useful info Bernie. I'm itching to take a couple trips
up there this spring.
Kevin Durr
On Sun, Mar 5, 2017 at 2:59 PM, Bernie Krause
[naturerecordists] <> wrote:
>
>
> I record often at Sugarloaf State Park (located in the Mayacamas Mtns=85t=
he
> geological dividing ridge between Napa and Sonoma Valleys).
> http://www.sugarloafpark.org
>
> From the paddock parking area gate, about a half mile at road=92s end pa=
st
> the entrance toll booth, it=92s about a .8mi (1.2Km) easy walk to numerou=
s
> good sites. Bird choruses beginning before dawn become more dense and
> diverse with each passing day, now. Height of dawn chorus season is 2nd -
> 3rd week in April thru May. Frog choruses still abundant during the
> evening. Generally no noise from ground traffic or humans. Typically only
> one or two aircraft outbound from SFO during the entire 1 hr dawn chorus
> event. While the park is not quiet during the day, noise-free-intervals a=
re
> common during the early hours and late at night.
>
> Trails abundant and well-marked. Puma, black bear, foxes, bob cat can be
> occasionally seen (and heard). During the week, hardly anyone else to be
> seen or heard. In 25 years of recording there every year, I think we=92ve
> seen less than half a dozen other people at those hours.
>
> Sugarloaf is one of about a dozen really decent wildlife-abundant
> recording locations in and around Sonoma County, about a 90 minute drive
> from where we live about half way between the town of Sonoma and Santa
> Rosa. Some are large private properties. Others are open space
> designations. Still others are owned and controlled by institutions like
> Sonoma State University, which owns like the Galbreath Reserve, a 3200 ac=
re
> completely undeveloped, accessible, and very quiet parcel of secondary
> growth woodland off of Hwy 128, the road between Cloverdale and Jenner,
> California.
>
> Bernie
>
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> On Mar 5, 2017, at 1:33 PM, 'kev.'
> [naturerecordists] <> wrote:
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>
>
> 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:
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>> 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 dr=
awn
>> 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 fi=
rst
>> 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 nearb=
y
>> 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 soo=
n as
>> the weather breaks, again.
>>
>> Bernie
>>
>>
>> On Mar 5, 2017, at 10:37 AM, [naturerecordists] <
>> > wrote:
>>
>>
>>
>> Martyn and Ray,
>>
>> A friend had Woodcocks "Peenting" in a nearby field, this week, and I ha=
d
>> 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
>>
>>
>> -----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 da=
ys
>> 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:
>>
>>
>> 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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