Journal archives for June 2020

June 4, 2020

June 3rd, 2020

June 3rd, 2020 (Wednesday) 9:00 am – 11:00 am: no newts today! This is the second week with no newts.
It was very hot (heat advisory from Tuesday-Thursday). It was already 25C at 9 am. No rain in a while.
Other roadkills - no vertebrates, a few honey bees, ants, crickets, a scorpion, flies, true bugs, and many beetles: darkling beetles, a large Predaceous Diving Beetle, small ironclad beetles, and unknown beetles.
Coverage: north part - the county park parking lot till the second stop sign.
Rainfall: (MTD: 0 in; YTD: 21.77 in). Data from - http://www.weathercat.net/wxraindetail.php
Traffic: 10 truck, 25 cars, 15 bikes, 6 pedestrians.
All county park parking lots were open, no street parking near the first County Park parking lot.

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June 13, 2020

June 12th, 2020

June 12th, 20 (Friday) 9:00 am – 10:45 am: no newts today! This is the 3rd week with no newts.
The weather was nice (it was hot on Tuesday-Thursday).
Other roadkills - two rodents, not too far away from each other, but they were not the same. A few honey bees, ants, a fly, spider, beetles.
Coverage: north part - the county park parking lot till the second stop sign.
Rainfall: (MTD: 0.01 in; YTD: 21.78 in). Data from - http://www.weathercat.net/wxraindetail.php
Traffic: 10 trucks, 25 cars, 35 bikes, 15 pedestrians.
All county park parking lots were open, no street parking near the first County Park parking lot.

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June 19, 2020

June 17th, 2020

June 17th, 2020 (Wednesday) 9:00 am – 10:30 am: no newts today! This is the 4th week with no newts.
The weather was hot (a new heat-wave just began).
Other roadkills - honey bees, ants, beetles, one caterpillar.
Coverage: north part - the county park parking lot till the second stop sign.
Rainfall: (MTD: 0.01 in; YTD: 21.78 in). Data from - http://www.weathercat.net/wxraindetail.php
Traffic: 8 trucksb (4 of which PG&E headed south on the road), 27 cars, 8 bikes, 6 pedestrians, and 3 horses.
All county park parking lots were open, no street parking near the first County Park parking lot.

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June 24, 2020

June 23rd, 2020

June 23rd, 2020 (Tuesday) 9:00 am – 11:00 am: no newts today! This is the 5th week with no newts.
The weather was hot (the weekend was ok, but otherwise it's been hot).
Other roadkills - honey bees, ants, beetles, centipede, moth, spider, fly.
Coverage: north part - the county park parking lot till the second stop sign.
Rainfall: (MTD: 0.01 in; YTD: 21.78 in). Data from - http://www.weathercat.net/wxraindetail.php
Traffic: 12 trucks, 32 cars, 16 bikes, 13 pedestrians.
The rowing club was open, with people inside. I didn't notice it was open last week.
All county park parking lots were open, no street parking near the first County Park parking lot.

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