In case some of you are interested in the trickle of birds that passed overhead last night...
Sincerely, Chris T-H Begin forwarded message: Date: May 9, 2012 9:33:06 PM EDT To: "nfc-l@cornell. edu" <nf...@cornell.edu<mailto:nf...@cornell.edu>> Subject: Night Migration 8-9 May 2012, Etna, NY Last night, I recorded the night migration over Etna, NY from about 9:40pm until dawn chorus, which started just before 5:00am. Again, this was using the Evans-style flowerpot microphone, streaming the audio into my laptop running Raven Pro. After saving the more identifiable or curious-sounding clips, I have compiled a list of identified species, below, and their numbers. I attempted not to duplicate individuals, which can often be identified using the doppler shift effect when bird pass overhead, calling repeatedly. I did not take too much time getting into the nitty-gritty of IDing challenging birds to species, and instead, left those off the list. This is in order of quantities of identified individuals: 77 - VEERY 38 - SWAINSON'S THRUSH 22 - WOOD THRUSH 12 - Common Yellowthroat (song @03:26, partial song @04:01) 10 - Ovenbird- or Black-throated Blue Warbler-like 7 - Chestnut-sided Warbler-like 6 - BLACK-BILLED CUCKOOS (song @02:30; NFCs at: 02:59, 03:09, 0310, 03:13, 03:26, 04:37, 04:43 - the cluster around 03:10 must have been a grouping of individuals, since calls were slightly different in timbre) 6 - Solitary Sandpipers 5 - Bobolink 3 - Chipping Sparrow 3 - White-throated Sparrow 2 - Spotted Sandpiper 1 - American Redstart 1 - Black-and-white Warbler (00:02) 1 - Flying Squirrel (okay...not a bird, but... @04:12, our local squirrel) 1 - HERMIT THRUSH (03:49) 1 - LEAST FLYCATCHER (che-Beck! at 04:54, possibly a landed bird, though, not heard again) 1 - UPLAND SANDPIPER (possible distant bird called at 23:53) 1 - VIRGINIA RAIL (01:37 - kek-kek....kek-kek calls) There were probably a hundred or more calls whose sounds were not saved nor did I bother to attempt to identify, because of the distance away and resulting decreased amplitude of the calls. Spring night listening is cool! Sincerely, Chris T-H -- Christopher T. Tessaglia-Hymes TARU Product Line Manager and Field Applications Engineer Bioacoustics Research Program, Cornell Lab of Ornithology 159 Sapsucker Woods Road, Ithaca, New York 14850 W: 607-254-2418 M: 607-351-5740 F: 607-254-1132 http://www.birds.cornell.edu/brp -- Christopher T. Tessaglia-Hymes TARU Product Line Manager and Field Applications Engineer Bioacoustics Research Program, Cornell Lab of Ornithology 159 Sapsucker Woods Road, Ithaca, New York 14850 W: 607-254-2418 M: 607-351-5740 F: 607-254-1132 http://www.birds.cornell.edu/brp -- Cayugabirds-L List Info: http://www.NortheastBirding.com/CayugabirdsWELCOME http://www.NortheastBirding.com/CayugabirdsRULES http://www.NortheastBirding.com/CayugabirdsSubscribeConfigurationLeave.htm ARCHIVES: 1) http://www.mail-archive.com/cayugabirds-l@cornell.edu/maillist.html 2) http://www.surfbirds.com/birdingmail/Group/Cayugabirds 3) http://birdingonthe.net/mailinglists/CAYU.html Please submit your observations to eBird: http://ebird.org/content/ebird/ --
