The South Section menagerie - April 8, 2022

Walked from Aldercroft Road to the stop sign.
Time: 7:30 AM - 9:30 AM
Weather: Sunny, temp not recorded
Observer: Robin Agarwal

Newts: 55 dead, including 2 juveniles. None fresh. No live newts.

The recent warm daytime temps and cool nights brought out a menagerie of creatures onto the road, probably at night, probably seeking the retained warmth of the asphalt or invert prey. There were 18 non-newt species recorded:
1 small California Kingsnake (9") - beautiful, very fresh, first thing I saw when I got out of the car
1 Santa Cruz Aquatic Garter Snake - neatly marked with a fox poop already
3 Western Toads - one was gigantic
1 Sierran Tree Frog
3 AOR Wild Turkeys
3 Scorpions, possibly of two species
1 Ornate Tiger Moth, so pretty
1 Banana Slug
Crickets, Millipedes, caterpillars
1 Largemouth Bass DOR (Ha! A Newt Patrol first. Not roadkill, of course, but funny.)

There was a large Gopher Snake DOR on Aldercroft, so I pulled over and recorded that as well, although it is not added to our project.

Human Activity: 22 cars, no trucks, no construction. One nice conversation with a Soda Springs Road resident, Danny, who asked about our project and said he moves live newts off the road regularly (perhaps a secret softie, since he also had an NRA sticker on his pickup).
:-)

Publicado el 09 de abril de 2022 por anudibranchmom anudibranchmom

Comentarios

wow, what a long and sad list! at least you were there to document them all.
I'm also surprised at the high number of newts, as I only had 8 at the north section earlier this week.

Publicado por merav hace casi 2 años

oh, and this is our 2nd fish DOR!
https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/21012641

Publicado por merav hace casi 2 años

and one last thing - could you move the turkeys from the roadkill project to the still alive one? https://www.inaturalist.org/projects/still-alive-crossing-alma-bridge-rd

Publicado por merav hace casi 2 años

And here's another catfish found dead on ABR years ago:
https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/21095857

Publicado por truthseqr hace casi 2 años

3 DOR fish! another article for The Guardian?!?

Publicado por merav hace casi 2 años

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