Re: [nfc-l] Good night flight, eastern Boulder County, Colorado, July 30th

2009-07-31 Thread Tom Johnson
Ted, Interesting comment about Eastern Kingbird; while I typically don't hear them calling at night on migration, there have been quite a few instances at the Cornell football stadium where I've heard EAKIs calling at night during light-provoked circulation events in early fall. Eastern Phoebe

Re: [nfc-l] Good night flight, eastern Boulder County, Colorado, July 30th

2009-07-31 Thread Colby Neuman
Ted and others, I've been meaning to ask you this for a while... When you hear migrating Lark Sparrows in Colorado, are you hearing their flight call they often give while flying over in the day or is this strictly a nocturnal flight call you're hearing? If the latter, how would you describe it

[nfc-l] Good night flight, eastern Boulder County, Colorado, July 30th

2009-07-30 Thread Ted Floyd
Hi, all. No zugunruhe here... :-) It was the real deal here in eastern Boulder County earlier this morning, Thursday, July 30th. Between 3:30 and 4:00, I heard the following flight calls: 1 Yellow Warbler, 28 Chipping Sparrows, 2 Lark Sparrows, and 1 Lark Bunting. Of special interest was an