Hi Birders, I'm just beginning to dig into this whole nocturnal flight call thing, and it is awesome. I took a couple hours in one of my favorite spots for fall migrants near Sudbury, MA today and managed a few recordings before sunup. This one included below is giving me a little trouble. It sounds vaguely Gray-cheeked Thrush-like but seems to be a little too low in pitch.
Sorry for the quality of the sound file, I'm currently just using my SLR for the recordings. I'll upgrade to something else by next spring I hope. There was a substantial movement of Swainson's Thrushes between 5 and 6 AM, with at least 35 separate birds. I had a good bunch of Rose-breasted Grosbeaks, and surprisingly few warblers. After sunup I could only find 2 Swainson's Thrushes, which was interesting considering how many were airborne an hour earlier! Best, Tim Spahr Marlborough tsp...@cfa.harvard.edu -- 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/ --
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