Posted: Sun Aug 19, 2012 11:44 am Post subject: Too hot to do anything but lay around
This spring was great for the cameras. We found a few key places for the lions and managed to capture grooming and napping! The two kittens we were watching grew up and dispersed, and even the female seems to have left the area.
I don't know if I posted this info before, but we did find out through DNA testing that the two kittens in the Verdugos were not related to the two kittens found under a car in Burbank last year. That was a bit of a shocker, and shows there is quite a bit of traveling going on between the Verdugos and the San Gabriels. They are completely separate from the Santa Monica population however, and even P22 in Griffith Park shares no relation to the Verdugo lions.
But for now, everyone is just laying around in the heat. In the spring, we had camera triggers every few days, but now it's about once a week or less. And there's very little movement from all the other species, too. Been seeing a lot of owls lately though.
Whoever is on Facebook is invited to look up and "like" Cougarmagic there. Lots more stuff gets posted, including pics from the UCLA bobcat study.
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Interesting hearing the crickets pitch change in the first video. Temperature difference maybe?
Yeah - I noticed that too. I don't know! Also some nights there are barely any crickets at all, while other nights it's annoyingly loud. _________________ http://www.cougarmagic.com
From the peaks gigantic, from the great sierras and the high plateaus,
From the mine and from the gully, from the hunting trail we come, Pioneers! O pioneers!
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