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Subject 1: (Interview). Subtitle: Randy Little. Timecode In: 00:01:26. Timecode out: 00:08:36. Notes: Field recording discussion. Subject 2: Gray Flycatcher (Empidonax wrightii). Timecode In: 00:24:47. Timecode out: 00:28:32. Notes: Pre-dawn song. Behaviors: song. Subject 3: (Interview). Subtitle: Gregory Budney. Timecode In: 00:48:10. Timecode out: 00:49:18. Notes: Bird identification discussion. Subject 4: (Interview). Subtitle: Jim Steele. Timecode In: 00:56:22. Timecode out: 02:01:02. Notes: Bird banding station discussion and sounds. Includes unidentified voices. Equipment Notes: Decoded MS stereo. Elevation: 2060 m. Show: LNS Log of DAT #: 6 Engineer: Fox Date: .03-1.25 Car doors shutting, movement 1.25-2:39 uv Sheep, you may have noticed, some of those sheep were wearing bells and as they graze through the area that bell sound will be an obnoxious background to natural sound recording. I don't expect the sheep dogs to be barking continually unless the sheep get straying and hopefully the sheep will not find us. They are curious animals, cows are curious animals and in the understory of the coniferous woods here there are a number of very crunchy cones that seem to make a lot of noise when the cattle or sheep walk through them. At any rate, what we're here for is Gray Flycatcher's pre-dawn song. I don't hear any at the moment. Let's not give up hope yet. They will be calling from this sort of parkland, open, coniferous forest area. 2:39-4:31 uv I just hear one, shlick-lee shlick-lee. It's a series of short notes like that given relatively continuously given right before the period where you would say, oh the sun is just about to come up. When that occurs they slow down and go into their more typical measured daytime response. They will be roosting now in these long-needled Jeffrey Pines. Some in shorter pines which may give you an opportunity to get one at practically eye level. And they are quite attached to their roost perch so that you will b able to approach them quite closely. In fact when it got light enough to see three participants discovered that they had converged on one small gray flycatcher in a small Christmas tree sized pine tree from three different directions and they had it surrounded. But they didn't know that, they had each crept in the pitch darkness. Some of them will be calling higher up but unlikely that they will be up on hillside so stay pretty much on this plateau level of terrain. From where we are now in the direction we were headed on the Forest Service Route 1 for another half mile is all good gray flycatcher pre-dawn habitat. 4:31- uv Off to our north, to my right, there's another open meadow area that when the regular dawn chorus starts will probably be a good recording area. The stream that goes through it is kind of on this edge of it and bares around to my right, sort of around a rocky point that was a quarry for improving the forest road hear. And then cuts through a gulch down to the main Carmen Valley meadow that we skirted on the way in at the head of which were the sheep. In that main meadow after dawn you will find clumps willow of distributed along the valley, in which Jim Steele's Banding crew on this morning plans to set-up a series of misnets to capture birds to measure and band to determine just what birds are moving into this habitat and using this habitat this time of year. 5:48-6:57 uv The valley is also the sight of an experimental stream improvement project. You noticed the culverts that we went over at the head of the big pipes under the road at the head end of the valley. The idea is that the stream has cut a deep gulch draining that valley dropping the water table. Dramatically changing the growing conditions of the lush meadow to what would probably become sage brush if nothing was done to try to restore it to the... (Notes truncated)
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- 13 May 2010 - David McCartt
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- 13 May 2010 - David McCartt
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- 13 May 2010 - David McCartt