On the shores of Lake Dardanelle, the Cardinals started singing about 10
minutes before totality. The "dawn chorus" started immediately after
totality, but only lasted a few minutes. The cardinals, which I had not
heard until right before totality, continued singing the rest of the
afternoon until I started the 4 hour "2-hour" drive home. I wish I had
looked out onto the lake to see what cormorants and gulls were doing, but I
was too engrossed in the eclipse. Oh, and I can report that all of my
cousins' grandkids got quiet during totality, as well. It was quite
spectacular!
Karen Garrett, now back in Benton County, but I thank Pope County for
letting me view their 4 min, 12 sec of totality
On Tue, Apr 9, 2024 at 8:17 PM Sandy Berger <sndbrgr...> wrote:
> I was near Mansfield where we had over three minutes of totality. All bird
> song stopped for the three minutes. Just before totality a small flock of
> Red-winged Blackbirds flew into the woods to roost presumably. As it got
> lighter more bird song was heard then than before the eclipse.
> I also had FOS Common Yellowthroat, White-eyed Vireo, and Blue-gray
> Gnatcatcher.
>
> Sandy B
>
> On Tue, Apr 9, 2024 at 8:10 PM Jim Morgan <jlmm...> wrote:
>
>> Heard a Barred Owl as well.
>> Also heard Yellow-Throated Vireo call as the light dimmed. They had been
>> vocal while we were out between 8-10. am. We went back outside about noon
>> and didn’t hear them until light level dropped a fair bit. Not scientific
>> since I wasn’t outside listening the whole time. But it sure seemed the
>> Y-T vireo calls picked back up after light levels dropped.
>>
>> Locality was close tie the ghost town of Rush in the Buffalo River area,
>> but several hundred feet elevation above the river.
>>
>> Regards
>> Jim Morgan
>> Sent from my iPad
>>
>> On Apr 9, 2024, at 6:32 PM, Anderson, Leif - FS, AR <
>> <000002b0bc8b0106-dmarc-request...> wrote:
>>
>>
>>
>> Greetings all,
>>
>> The last 3 days I ‘ve had the pleasure of being a volunteer for some neat
>> bioacoustic eclipse research. Led by Douglas Barron and his undergrad
>> student Colton Morris, from AR Tech University.
>>
>>
>>
>> I had 3 interesting bird observations.
>>
>> During the partial portion of the eclipse 2 White-throated Sparrows
>> stopped feeding/calling/singing and flew up into a Cedar bush. They stayed
>> on the “roost” until after totality then resumed their normal feeding
>> behavior.
>>
>>
>>
>> The end of totality “Dawn chorus” at 1:54pm was just as good as our
>> normal dawn chorus.
>>
>>
>>
>> About 4 min into totality a Barred Owl started calling.
>>
>>
>>
>> Holla Bend NWR hosted about 800 eclipse visitors, many of whom were
>> birders/ nature lovers from all over the country, Canada and even a birding
>> family from the Czech Republic.
>>
>>
>>
>> , Leif
>>
>>
>>
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