[cayugabirds-l] Freese Road gardens, Wed 9/21

2011-09-21 Thread Mark Chao
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

Re:[cayugabirds-l] [nfc-l] big night flight tonight

2011-09-21 Thread Bill Evans
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

Re:[cayugabirds-l] [nfc-l] big night flight tonight

2011-09-21 Thread Kenneth Victor Rosenberg
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