I too think the cloud ceiling played an important role in yesterday's migrants. I could see as the cloud cover became heavier, I heard more calls that sounded to be coming from the closer birds. Yesterday night was one of my best NFC listening nights.
Meena From: bounce-116019028-10061...@list.cornell.edu [mailto:bounce-116019028-10061...@list.cornell.edu] On Behalf Of Christopher T. Tessaglia-Hymes Sent: Wednesday, May 28, 2014 11:20 AM To: NFC-L; Laura Gooch Subject: Re: [nfc-l] Night Flight - Etna, NY: 5/27-5/28 Laura, I kind of noticed the same. I'm thinking this may have been a low altitude passage of migrants due to the lower cloud ceiling? We had several heavy isolated rain storms pass through overnight and we woke to dense upper elevation fog and moderate amounts of mist at mid-level elevations this morning. Can't wait to go over my data with a fine-tooth comb, though... Take care, all! Sincerely, Chris T-H On May 28, 2014, at 11:01 AM, Laura Gooch <lgo...@alum.mit.edu<mailto:lgo...@alum.mit.edu>> wrote: We were a little late turning on the microphone last night (about 22:00 EDT), but there was a quite substantial movement of thrushes and warbler/sparrow frequency calls going on here on the east side of Cleveland, too. I have not had a chance to review the data, but there must have been a broad front of activity last night. Interestingly, the radar images don't show all that much movement here. Laura Gooch Cleveland Heights, OH On Wednesday, May 28, 2014 10:44 AM, Christopher T. Tessaglia-Hymes <c...@cornell.edu<mailto:c...@cornell.edu>> wrote: Early this morning, I did a very cursory review of all audio data from the overnight recording, by hand browsing through spectrograms using Raven Pro. Last night, birds started vocalizing around 9:10pm. Once again, predominant species was Swainson's Thrush with second most predominant species being Gray-cheeked Thrush. There were significantly more warblers and other high frequency calls overnight last night compared to the night before. Here are the highlights/notables: 8 Black-billed Cuckoos (including one cooing sequence) 3 Yellow-billed Cuckoos 2 Alder Flycatchers 45+ Gray-cheeked thrushes 200+ Swainson's Thrushes 2 Veeries 2 High-frequency sparrow-type calls, containing modulation Good night listening! Sincerely, Chris T-H -- Christopher T. Tessaglia-Hymes 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 -- NFC-L List Info: Welcome and Basics<http://www.northeastbirding.com/NFC_WELCOME> Rules and Information<http://www.northeastbirding.com/NFC_RULES> Subscribe, Configuration and Leave<http://www.northeastbirding.com/NFC-L_SubscribeConfigurationLeave.htm> Archives: The Mail Archive<http://www.mail-archive.com/nfc-l@cornell.edu/maillist.html> Surfbirds<http://www.surfbirds.com/birdingmail/Group/NFC-L> BirdingOnThe.Net<http://birdingonthe.net/mailinglists/NFCL.html> Please submit your observations to eBird<http://ebird.org/content/ebird/>! -- -- NFC-L List Info: Welcome and Basics<http://www.northeastbirding.com/NFC_WELCOME> Rules and Information<http://www.northeastbirding.com/NFC_RULES> Subscribe, Configuration and Leave<http://www.northeastbirding.com/NFC-L_SubscribeConfigurationLeave.htm> Archives: The Mail Archive<http://www.mail-archive.com/nfc-l@cornell.edu/maillist.html> Surfbirds<http://www.surfbirds.com/birdingmail/Group/NFC-L> BirdingOnThe.Net<http://birdingonthe.net/mailinglists/NFCL.html> Please submit your observations to eBird<http://ebird.org/content/ebird/>! -- -- Christopher T. Tessaglia-Hymes 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 -- NFC-L List Info: Welcome and Basics<http://www.northeastbirding.com/NFC_WELCOME> Rules and Information<http://www.northeastbirding.com/NFC_RULES> Subscribe, Configuration and Leave<http://www.northeastbirding.com/NFC-L_SubscribeConfigurationLeave.htm> Archives: The Mail Archive<http://www.mail-archive.com/nfc-l@cornell.edu/maillist.html> Surfbirds<http://www.surfbirds.com/birdingmail/Group/NFC-L> BirdingOnThe.Net<http://birdingonthe.net/mailinglists/NFCL.html> Please submit your observations to eBird<http://ebird.org/content/ebird/>! -- -- 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/ --
