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Western Honey Bee (Apis mellifera)Observer
laura289Description
There tons of bees in there before the max eclipse, about 80% totality where we were.
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Domestic Cattle (Bos taurus)Observer
twickerDescription
I heard a cow make a long low moo right before totality. During totality, crickets chirped. When the first sliver of sun appeared, a rooster crowed. Half an hour after totality we saw a field of cows lying down.
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Evening Bats (Family Vespertilionidae)Observer
sunny1azPlace
Deer Creek, north of Mann Creek General Store which is northeast of Weiser, Idaho. (Google, OSM)Description
We drove from Arizona to Idaho for the solar eclipse and were directly under the center line. The lady who lives at the house where we stayed found a dead bat, still fresh (soft and warm), in her yard immediately after the eclipse. It appears to be a Little Brown Bat. I bagged it, have kept on ice and am ready to ship to someone doing research. (I am vaccinated for rabies so was not worried about that.) I did not detect any white-nose problems. My guess is that it came out during the coolness and darkness of the eclipse then got too hot when the sun quickly came out; it was in the 90s.
First contact of moon and sun was at 1006. Totality was a two-minute period between 1124 and 1126 based on my camera settings. Last contact was at 1247; bat was immediately found and photographed at that time.
