WOMXNS MARCH_raw_09 by Andy "soundeziner" Martin

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Traveling home on the last day I made a couple pit stops. The first was to record some particularly impatient cattle lined up by a roadside pasture waiting for breakfast.

Traveling home, I made a pit-stop to head into the forests after passing over the Cascades to record… some cascades

Traveling home, I made a pit-stop to head into the forests after passing over the Cascades to record… some cascades

My final night I set up near the same location I had the evening before, but in a higher elevation, away from the marsh and into the plateau. I’d heard coyotes coming from that direction the night before and I needed to see if I could catch a hint of them before leaving. I wasn’t disappointed, being scared half-witted by the sound that erupted in my headphones just at the moment I’d thought I’d missed them. I was admittedly nervous about going back up to collect my microphones but later realized the pack had likely moved on and remembered that coyotes don’t hunt human-sized meat. I think. I hope.

Because of the long summer-time aridness of the refuge, vegetation is sparse. Prairie grasses and sage dominate the landscape outside of the marshy coulees. There are times in which I felt like I was out just to record wind through sage.

Morning At Columbia National Wildlife Refuge, 2016-06-10 by Andy "soundeziner" Martin