It's starting to feel and look like fall at the Freese Road garden plots.
At midday on Wednesday, I found a LINCOLN'S SPARROW, a SWAMP SPARROW, a few
dozen SONG SPARROWS, six SAVANNAH SPARROWS, five FIELD SPARROWS, a few
INDIGO BUNTINGS, some House Sparrows, and a western PALM WARBLER.
Mark
Ken appears to have tuned into one of the biggest calling night of the
season so far in central NY. The acoustic station at Alfred Station, NY
logged its season high number (988) of warbler and sparrow flight calls last
night between 8:30PM-5:30AM. Based on spectrographic analysis roughly 4
Thanks Bill. I did hear a few typical Lincoln's/Swamp sparrow dts but
was not confident enough to report. If there were that few Black-throated
Blues, I'm curious what most of the abrupt tsip notes might have been? There
were certainly way fewer of what I would consider typical buzzy