November 19, 2020 - south side
45 dead newts (of which 5 were juveniles), 0 live newts.
November 19th, 2020 (Wednesday) 1:45pm-4:15pm
Weather: Beautiful sunny day in the mid-high 60s. It had showered gently the previous day and rained all the day before that and the road & ground were still damp.
Other roadkill: 1 large Western Toad, 1 large millipede, 1 caterpillar (and many fallen leaves and fruits doing newt impressions).
Coverage: Aldercroft Heights Road intersection to stop sign.
Rainfall: MTD 0.82in, YTD 0.92in (per http://www.weathercat.net/wxraindetail.php?year=2020)
Traffic: 46 cars, 5 parked cars, 4 trucks, 6 bicycles, 3 motorcycles, 1 walker. Several fire helicopters practicing over the reservoir.
The single Midpen study area had no newts or other critters in its pitfall buckets or section of road. They've put a traffic study spot on this side as well (not near the newt study site).
Pretty fall color sometimes, in the form of golden bigleaf maples and the bare red stems of deervetch.
Newt map:
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I love the map! Could you remind me how you do that?
From "Your Observations" I make a search for all Taricha seen on the day, on the map view turn off satellite, take a screenshot, upload the screenshot to imgur.com (free and doesn't require making an account), copy the url from the image once it's uploaded there, and type the <img src="[url here]"/> html to embed it in the post.
Oh and Anne IDed an additional juvenile in my photos, which I've just edited this post to include.
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