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Index of Subjects Hi James and all, I forgot to mention that I saw no Loons at either Welshtown Lake or Horseshoe Lake on Sunday morning. I think it may have been a bit early for those two lakes. Perhaps Peter MacDonald will respond to this. Also wonder if the loons are back at Barrington Lake. Lillian did you see them? I wasn't able to do my owl route in Weshtown this weekend, but an acquaintance who lives in Up. Clyde reported hearing many more than usual Barred Owls there this spring. I'll do my route (Welshtown) later in the month, hopefully with Lillian and Aileen. James Hirtle wrote: > Dorothy Poole and I did route #35 on 04/11/10. The temperature went > from 10 to 2. It was a good year for owls as we heard 18 in total. > All were barred owls and two were repeats. This year was strange as > a number of owls were heard after the playback stopped. Five to be > exact. It was also abnormal that a lot of owls did not respond to the > barred owl playback, but initially to the boreal only. It was very > windy at the first stop and even more so at the last two stops, but > inbetween very quiet and calm. The skies were clear and the evening > bright. Owls were detected at 6 out of 10 locations. Two locations > had no owls for the first time ever on this route. For the second > year in a row, there were no northern saw-whets. Other abnormalities > were a lack of wood frogs being vocal. I suspect that with the warm > weather that we had that they probably were vocal sooner then normal > and have stopped vocalizing now. > > Other notables. A lack of Common loons calling on this route. We did > not hear any loons at all this time around except for the last two > stops. Normally loons were detected at almost every stop. At one > stop we heard two separate, large groups of coyotes vocalizing back > and forth to one another. We had the least amount of vehicles ever on > this route and also the least amount of planes heard and seen. It is > interesting that there seemed to be a lack of air traffic. Normally > this is a very active route for such. > > James R. Hirtle > Bayport > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------ > Videos that have everyone talking! Now also in HD! MSN.ca Video. > <http://go.microsoft.com/?linkid=9724460>
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