iNat users might enjoy Cosmo Sheldrake’s work, which includes nature sounds and music inspired by them. (His brother is mycologist Merlin Sheldrake.)
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That’s amazing. I love that you included the sound in the observation, it makes me feel like I was there. Rattlesnakes are not a threat in my area, and now I have a little better understanding of what it’s like to live with them. Excellent use of observation notes.
I wonder if we could start a myth about the sound being why it’s called “death camas”…
As a birder, I do not listen to music, because that would make it harder to find birds. And anyone who is listening to music without headphones makes me very, very cranky. 
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Part of being out in Nature are the sounds. You never know what you might miss by not listening. More than a couple of times a rattlesnake was kind enough to warn me of its presence. If I had been listening to music, things may have gone horrbly wrong.
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Dictionary
Ca·ma
/ˈkämə/
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noun
- 1.a hybrid animal produced by crossing a camel with a llama.
Camel-llama hybrid of death??
No, not a camelid. “Camas” (singular, plural “camases”) refers to Camassia quamash and comes from a Pacific Northwest language (Nez Percé or Chinook Jargon). Camas and deathcamas are in different monocot orders.
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