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Dorothy Poole and I ran my Lapland/Laconna route last night. It was a great evening with the quietest conditions I have ever run it. Usually there is a lot of traffic, but last night only two cars went by during the actual monitoring period. Of note is that this is the first year I have run the route that there have not been a lot of frogs vocalizing. We did hear two or three spring peepers with a very weak call. To be expected since it was -1. We also heard a number of wood frogs. I was especially surprised to see a bat fly by. More loons then ever were heard vocalizing along this route. Probably about triple the number of loons normally heard. Getting to the owls we positively had 8 barred owls and two northern saw-whets. In all of my owl monitoring years I have never been more confused by saw-whets. At one stop I recorded two for sure with one on either side of the road. Over a one km stretch, in which I did not record these owls I heard saw-whets vocalizing constantly. I do not know how many were present, but there must have been a whole slew of these birds moving through that area. I would hear a bird on one side of the road and another on the other very close. I'd then hear a saw-whet further up the road. In moving up the road I'd hear some vocalizing close and others further ahead. This went on over a one km stretch and it was easy to hear them vocalize out the car window. Again I only counted two as the others were between stops and could not be heard outside of the protocol listening areas. All in all a great evening with barred owls seen at four out of ten stops. Two stops that I always hear or see owls at were vacant which also was of note. James R. Hirtle Dublin Shore _________________________________________________________________ Win a webcam! Nominate your friend’s Windows Live Space in the Windows Live Spaces Sweetest Space Contest and you both could win! http://www.microsoft.com/canada/home/contests/sweetestspace/default.aspx
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