I birded for nearly three hours this morning at our place on south Whidbey
Island, and I did not notice any unusual behavior. It's a quiet time of
year, but the regular birds of late were still hanging around, 34 species
on this day.
The only thing that might come close to a reaction that I noticed was that
a robin sang for a couple minutes at the edge of the woods right when the
eclipse was at its max, something that I haven't heard in late morning in a
few weeks.
We noticed the odd look to the light, and the temperature dropped off some,
but it was still probably lighter out than if a thick cloud layer had come
in.

George Heleker
Whidbey Island

> ----- Original Message -----
>
> From: "Diann MacRae" <tvulture at gmx.com>
>
> To:<Tweeters at u.washington.edu>
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> Cc:
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> Sent:Tue, 22 Aug 2017 02:16:48 +0200
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> Subject:[Tweeters] eclipse time
>
> Hi, Tweets
>
> Does anyone have an email for a group looking for animal behavior during
> the eclipse? There were a couple earlier but, of course, I didn't write
> them down.
>
> At my house (very forested) things were extra quiet: no birds and no
> squirrels. In the house, however, right at the time of our "totality" my
> cat went beserk, racing through the house, running up and down the
> stairs, and jumping on things. She is usually quite sedate. Nothing else
> was happening so I was wondering if it was the eclipse. Just curious.
>
> Cheers, Diann
>
> Diann MacRae
> Olympic Vulture Study
> 22622 - 53rd Avenue S.E.
> Bothell, WA 98021
> tvulture at gmx.com