Hi, all. First off, a heads-up to night-listeners in *New York City, Ithaca,* and a few other places. If you're out listening and recording at *2am this coming Thursday morning, *March 20th, you're in for a once-in-lifetime celestial phenomenon. Details and viewing instructions here:
http://www.longisland.com/news/03-16-14/asteroid-set-to-cover-one-of-the-brightest-stars-in-the-night-sky-thursday-morning.html Second, I recently wrote a general-audience article on the delights of listening and recording at night. No doubt a bit basic for many of us here at NFC-L, but here it is, all the same: http://cfobirds.org/downloads/journal/Birding_on_the_Dark_Side.pdf All the best, Ted Floyd Lafayette, Boulder County, Colorado, USA =================================== Ted Floyd Editor, *Birding* magazine Website: http://aba.org/birding Twitter: http://twitter.com/BirdingMagazine<https://twitter.com/BirdingMagazine> The ABA Blog: http://blog.aba.org/ -- NFC-L List Info: http://www.NortheastBirding.com/NFC_WELCOME http://www.NortheastBirding.com/NFC_RULES http://www.NortheastBirding.com/NFC-L_SubscribeConfigurationLeave.htm ARCHIVES: 1) http://www.mail-archive.com/nfc-l@cornell.edu/maillist.html 2) http://www.surfbirds.com/birdingmail/Group/NFC-L 3) http://birdingonthe.net/mailinglists/NFCL.html Please submit your observations to eBird: http://ebird.org/content/ebird/ --
