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Index of Subjects --089e0158b35acaddc904da7b36c1 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Krista and I did the Fairmont (Ant. Coi.) route last night. Frogs were barely an issue as it was about -3 oC the whole time. Three or four years ago, I got a dozen (?) or so Barreds, GHOW and S'whets. Last year, skunked. This year, under similarly ideal conditions as last year...skunked. Very perplexing. Randy _________________________________ RF Lauff Way in the boonies of Antigonish County, NS. On 16 April 2013 01:13, James Hirtle <jrhbirder@hotmail.com> wrote: > > An interesting evening for running this route with owls on 8 out of 10 > stops. We missed out on owls interestingly on two of the stops that we > usually get them. One of these stops now has a trailer at the location, so > that could be the reason. The other stop we always have wood frogs and > spring peepers so loud that it is unbelievable, but by that point the > temperature had dropped to around freezing. Wood frogs and spring peepers > were at the first five stops and I suspect we would have heard them on all > stops had the temperature not dropped. As the temperature dropped the owls > seemed to become less vocal. I don't know if any studies have been done in > respects to this observation or not. In all we had 10 barred owls. Most > of the owls all except for the first stop where there were three, two of > which were seen, were all more distant than is the norm on this route. > > James R. Hirtle > Bridgewater > > --089e0158b35acaddc904da7b36c1 Content-Type: text/html; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable <div dir=3D"ltr">Krista and I did the Fairmont (Ant. Coi.) route last night= . Frogs were barely an issue as it was about -3 oC the whole time. Three or= four years ago, I got a dozen (?) or so Barreds, GHOW and S'whets. Las= t year, skunked. This year, under similarly ideal conditions as last year..= .skunked. Very perplexing.<div> <br></div><div style>Randy</div></div><div class=3D"gmail_extra"><br clear= =3D"all"><div>_________________________________<br>RF Lauff<br>Way in the b= oonies of<br>Antigonish County, NS.</div> <br><br><div class=3D"gmail_quote">On 16 April 2013 01:13, James Hirtle <sp= an dir=3D"ltr"><<a href=3D"mailto:jrhbirder@hotmail.com" target=3D"_blan= k">jrhbirder@hotmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class=3D"gmai= l_quote" style=3D"margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left= :1ex"> <div><div dir=3D"ltr"><br><font size=3D"4">An interesting evening for runni= ng this route with owls on 8 out of 10 stops.=A0=A0 We missed out on owls i= nterestingly on two of the stops that we usually get them.=A0 One of these = stops now has a trailer at the location, so that could be the reason.=A0 Th= e other stop we always have wood frogs and spring peepers so loud that it i= s unbelievable, =A0but by that point the temperature had dropped to around = freezing.=A0 Wood frogs and spring peepers were at the first five stops and= I suspect we would have heard them on all stops had the temperature not dr= opped.=A0 As the temperature dropped the owls seemed to become less vocal.= =A0 I don't know if any studies have been done in respects to this obse= rvation or not.=A0 In all we had 10 barred owls.=A0 Most of the owls all ex= cept for the first stop where there were three, two of which were seen, wer= e all more distant than is the norm on this route.=A0 <br> =A0<br>James R. Hirtle<br>Bridgewater<br><br></font> </div></div= > </blockquote></div><br></div> --089e0158b35acaddc904da7b36c1--
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