Feb 7, 2021 (Sunday) - North Side

Conducted survey of North side from 9:00 am - 12:30 pm. Weather was 48F, sunny.
Documented 100 dead newts, 1 of which was a juvenile. No live newts observed.

Checked the HTH survey pitfall traps and couldn't find anything, so they might have beat me to clear all the newts on their survey sites, hence did not find any.

Documented Human Activity:
Cars: 190
Motorcycles: 3
Bikes: 60
Pedestrians: 61
Parked Cars: 95

Notes: Heavy traffic along the Alma Bridge Road not only due to the rowing folks, but also due to people looking to burn those super bowl pizza calories or maybe warmer weather.

A couple of ladies came over when I was checking tire treads and asked me if I was working as a parking officer. I explained the entire project we are collecting data for, to which they said "That is fascinating. BTW can you tell us where is the trail that leads to the reservoir?" :|

Another thing I noticed is that when I looked under the parked cars near the Limekiln Trail, I spotted a few dead newts. Some were easy to photograph, some not so much without people suspecting something nefarious I might do to the car.

I found almost 15% of the today's observations as floaters i.e. dried newts that were not stuck to the road. Now they can be either be extremely dried up and peeled off by themselves, dropped off a traveling car tire or were a previous observation that was thrown on the side of the road but hitched a ride with the winds and came back on the road. Anyways, I just want to make sure we are not double dipping.

On the way back home, I did spot about 4 dead newts in the section from the Lexington reservoir parking lot to Los Gatos Creek trail, that might be an area we might not be recording newt fatalities or maybe it was a conscious decision to keep strict borders for the project. Just wanted to point it out.
Map of observations of what I am talking about
Screenshot-2021-02-07-175947

Link to my observations:
https://www.inaturalist.org/observations?on=2021-02-07&place_id=any&q=roadkill&user_id=karangattu&verifiable=any

Julkaistu helmikuu 8, 2021 02:03 AP. käyttäjältä karangattu karangattu

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