I'm not certain about the ceiling here. At least part of the time that we were out it looked like there was a thin, low ceiling, but that was clearing and the birds kept coming.
On 5/28/2014 12:11 PM, Meena Madhav Haribal wrote: > > I too think the cloud ceiling played an important role in yesterday's > migrants. I could see as the cloud cover became heavier, I heard more > calls that sounded to be coming from the closer birds. Yesterday night > was one of my best NFC listening nights. > > Meena > > *From:*bounce-116019028-10061...@list.cornell.edu > [mailto:bounce-116019028-10061...@list.cornell.edu] *On Behalf Of > *Christopher T. Tessaglia-Hymes > *Sent:* Wednesday, May 28, 2014 11:20 AM > *To:* NFC-L; Laura Gooch > *Subject:* Re: [nfc-l] Night Flight - Etna, NY: 5/27-5/28 > > Laura, > > I kind of noticed the same. I'm thinking this may have been a low > altitude passage of migrants due to the lower cloud ceiling? We had > several heavy isolated rain storms pass through overnight and we woke > to dense upper elevation fog and moderate amounts of mist at mid-level > elevations this morning. > > Can't wait to go over my data with a fine-tooth comb, though... > > Take care, all! > > Sincerely, > > Chris T-H > > On May 28, 2014, at 11:01 AM, Laura Gooch <lgo...@alum.mit.edu > <mailto:lgo...@alum.mit.edu>> > > wrote: > > > > We were a little late turning on the microphone last night (about > 22:00 EDT), but there was a quite substantial movement of thrushes and > warbler/sparrow frequency calls going on here on the east side of > Cleveland, too. I have not had a chance to review the data, but there > must have been a broad front of activity last night. Interestingly, > the radar images don't show all that much movement here. > > Laura Gooch > > Cleveland Heights, OH > > On Wednesday, May 28, 2014 10:44 AM, Christopher T. Tessaglia-Hymes > <c...@cornell.edu <mailto:c...@cornell.edu>> wrote: > > Early this morning, I did a very cursory review of all audio data > from the overnight recording, by hand browsing through > spectrograms using Raven Pro. Last night, birds started vocalizing > around 9:10pm. Once again, predominant species was Swainson's > Thrush with second most predominant species being Gray-cheeked > Thrush. > > There were significantly more warblers and other high frequency > calls overnight last night compared to the night before. > > Here are the highlights/notables: > > 8 Black-billed Cuckoos (including one cooing sequence) > > 3 Yellow-billed Cuckoos > > 2 Alder Flycatchers > > 45+ Gray-cheeked thrushes > > 200+ Swainson's Thrushes > > 2 Veeries > > 2 High-frequency sparrow-type calls, containing modulation > > Good night listening! > > Sincerely, > > Chris T-H > > -- > > Christopher T. 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