Hi, I couldn't quite wait for it to get light today, so I started birding a bit earlier than normal. I listened in various places around the Ithaca area from midnight to 4:15 AM with lots of cool birds migrating over. At midnight from Mt. Pleasant there were about 8-10 birds per minute going across the face of the moon, though the calling rate seemed to be fairly low for the number of birds in the air. I did hear several Virginia Rails, Sora, American Bittern, Spotted and Solitary Sandpipers, Wilson's Snipe, American Woodcock, both cuckoos (8 total, mostly Yellow-billed - surprisingly high number for May 1), and a variety of sparrows (mostly Savannah, Chipipng, White-throated) and warblers (with many unidentified). I saw several thrushes go across the face of the moon, but only heard one thrush flight call all night/ morning (a Hermit). It will be neat to read about what the nocturnal recordists in the area detected, and of course, what is on the ground when the sun comes up!
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