On Monday night (10:30ish ) I heard 5 BLACK-BILLED CUCKOOS migrating over in about 20 minutes- each called several times. Also an OVENBIRD flight song high overhead.
My listening was cut short when a skunk sprayed my dog in our front driveway.... Ken Sent from my iPhone On Jun 11, 2014, at 12:19 PM, "Christopher T. Tessaglia-Hymes" <c...@cornell.edu<mailto:c...@cornell.edu>> wrote: Last night was very quiet with interspersed rain showers. There were no cuckoos last night. Most of the past several nights have had both Black-billed and Yellow-billed Cuckoos flying over. Only birds last night were a flyover singing Red-eyed Vireo (9:51pm), Spotted Sandpiper (3:31am), and what sure sounds to me like a BARN OWL calling while flying over around 11:58pm. I'm now wondering if there could be a locally breeding pair. I read that they will fly upwards of 3-4 miles away from a nest site in search of food. That's a huge circle around my listening station, but could account for the likely distant calls recorded on early AM of 1 June. Attached is the best of the three calls recorded last night from the flyover bird. It isn't exactly a classic call, but it has much of the same qualities of a Barn Owl territorial flight call - this is the scream with an inflected terminus to the call; not the clicking and not the hissing. Sincerely, Chris T-H [see attached file: ETNA_NY_20140610.235958_Possible BARN OWL_best.wav] -- 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/>! -- <ETNA_NY_20140610.235958_Possible BARN OWL_best.wav> -- 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/ --