I’ve been night monitoring using an Old Bird 21c since July 8th here in northern Nova Scotia. I’ve had a total of 163 flight calls recorded. These breakdown to:
79 Plovers and Sandpipers 5 Thrushes 51 Warblers 4 Sparrows 24 Miscellaneous The shorebirds are clearly migrants but I’m not sure what to make of the warblers. I suspect they are post-breeding birds relocating within their breeding landscape rather than true migrants. The most common warbler calls have been double-banded upsweeps which I believe to be mostly of the genus Oreothlypis (14), followed by Yellow-rumped Warbler (11), and American Redstart (8). -- 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/ --