Yes, and remember Bill's classic thrush tape in which he had, if I am remembering correctly, both Wood Thrush and Bicknell's Thrush singing on the breeding grounds and interspersing the flight calls in the song? That was such a great tape!
Last year when I was in northern Quebec I had Gray-cheeked doing this as well but I could never record it..... Fun stuff! Jeff Jeff Wells International Boreal Conservation Campaign Boreal Songbird Initiative On Oct 11, 2011, at 9:46 PM, "Kenneth Victor Rosenberg" <k...@cornell.edu> wrote: > Jeff et al. > > I have fairly frequently heard Hermit Thrush giving it's nfc on the ground at > first light -- especially in early winter, often interspersed with "chuck" > notes just as you describe. I have also heard both Swainson's and Wood Thrush > giving what sounds like the nfc interspersed with song. I believe that this > is one of the ways that Bill Evans first figured out all the thrush calls -- > by matching them to calls heard in various contexts during the day and > visually confirmed. > > KEN > > > Ken Rosenberg > Conservation Science Program > Cornell Lab of Ornithology > 607-254-2412 > 607-342-4594 (cell) > k...@cornell.edu > > On Oct 11, 2011, at 5:09 PM, Jeff Wells wrote: > >> Yesterday morning I was out in my suburban yard in south-central Maine >> watching a nice morning flight of birds moving over and through when I began >> hearing the “chuck” call of a Hermit Thrush from the neighbor’s backyard. >> Soon it began alternating between the “chuck” call and the drawn-out “whee” >> nocturnal flight call. I went inside to get my camera to record it (my >> recording gear was packed away) and by then it had flown up across the >> street into the top of a tree. At that point it began just doing the flight >> call with no more of the “chuck” call and then it moved to another taller >> tree 100 yards away where it stayed and continued doing the call for a bit >> before suddenly stopping. It may have flown away or it may have just stopped >> calling and dropped down somewhere nearby but I never saw or heard it again. >> >> I was able to get some of the calls on some video clips, one of which I >> posted up on my YouTube channel for anyone interested. I think I have some >> recordings of Hermit Thrushes interspersing the nocturnal call into songs >> during the breeding season and I know I have a recording of a Swainson’s >> Thrush doing that. >> >> Anyway, you can hear the calls on the video titled “Hermit Thrush giving >> nocturnal flight call” at: http://www.youtube.com/birdconservation >> >> Interestingly, the second call it gives on the video is much burrier than >> what I think of as normal and some of the calls seem a bit shorter than what >> I am used to hearing at night. >> >> Jeff Wells >> Gardiner, Maine >> -- >> NFC-L List Info: >> Welcome and Basics >> Rules and Information >> Subscribe, Configuration and Leave >> Archives: >> The Mail Archive >> Surfbirds >> BirdingOnThe.Net >> Please submit your observations to 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/ --
