Woke up at 4 am this morning and was not that tired so decided to sit out on my deck and see what kind of migration was taking place. I checked the radar and there was fairly heavy migration south of my location with much less farther north. Cloud ceilings were very low as occasional fog clipped the top of the trees on the hill where I live. Winds were from the north as we were north of a frontal system. Migrants were likely descending as they ran into lower cloud ceilings and north winds? Anyway, the calls were low and quite loud but the numbers were not that impressive at least compared to fall.
I had the following in 40 minutes of listening: 4 veeries, 4 swainson's thrushes, 3 wood thrushes, 1 bobolink, 2 solitary sandpipers and 19 unidentified zeeps, chips and zits....warblers/sparrows?? That is a total of 33 calls in 40 minutes...almost 1 per minute. Dave Nicosia Johnson City, NY -- 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/ --
