Conducted survey of South side from 8:30 am - 1:40 pm. Weather was 49F, cloudy when I started the survey with a little rain as time progressed.
Documented 152 Newts, of which 12 were juveniles. I was able to rescue 2 live newts from the road in the north side while I was making my way to the south section on my bike.
Other documented roadkill: Juvenile Arboreal Salamander.
While making my way to the south side, I did spot 3 dead newts in HTH survey location 1, 1 dead newt in HTH survey location 2 and 3 newts in HTH survey location 3. (did not take a pic)
When I met the HTH team at Survey site 6 and asked them if they found a lot of newts, they said not a lot today. Yesterday was a bumper crop when they found at least 100 live newts in the buckets and a "few" dead newts on the road.
Documented Human Activity:
Cars: 53
Motorcycles: 1
Bikes: 50
Pedestrians: 9
Parked Cars: 7
Notes:
This was my first time patrolling the south section and it is truly the gorgeous but shy cousin of the north side. When Merav mentioned this section is quieter in the traffic and the newt fatality department, I thought I will use that time to do some introspection; find out the meaning of life and all. But the numerous squished newts had other ideas, I am pretty sure, I'll have one of the days in the future where I get to deeply think about my purpose in life, alas that day was not today.
There were a few instances when people asked what I was up to:
Link to my observations - https://www.inaturalist.org/observations?on=2021-02-13&place_id=any&q=roadkill&user_id=karangattu&verifiable=any
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Wow, @karangattu, those videos are awesome! Like they say, a picture is worth a thousand words.
Also, this reminds me that I forgot to take into account the deaths that occur within the HTH study boundaries. They haven't been sharing their data with us, so I can only guess a considerable number of newts have died within their boundaries as well.
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