Good morning! I finally set up my personal flowerpot microphone on the roof in Etna, NY, yesterday evening, and then conducted my first overnight recording of the spring.
In general, it was fairly uneventful and quiet, with the exception of the Spring Peeper chorus, periodic trilling American Toads, and occasional calling Gray Treefrog. In the Fingerlakes area of Upstate, NY, we are seeing a nearly unprecedented early leaf-out, or at least a leaf-out we haven’t seen this early in probably over a decade. This will make for interesting and sometimes challenging daytime birding, because so many more food resources are available as the bulk of migrants move through our region. OK, onto the night recording. Early this morning, I quickly scanned through the recording from last night with the following notables, in no particular order: Ovenbird (2 NFCs, 1 song) White Throated Sparrow (5+ NFCs) HF Sparrow seet (1 NFC) Indigo Bunting (2 NFCs, 1 song, one of the NFC’s was a really nice clear call) Wood Thrush (2 NFCs, 1 song - definite singer in flight, not from ground, which I think is a first for me as a singing flyover) Common Yellowthroats (5 NFCs, 3 songs) Chipping Sparrow (10+ NFCs, 7 songs - local bird triggered into song by flyover NFCs) Least Sandpiper (1 “kreeeet” series of calls) Spotted Sandpiper (3-4 call sequences, possible local bird) Virginia Rail (1 “k-kreeer" call) Green Heron (4 “keow!” calls) Baltimore Oriole (1 in-flight song) Tree Swallow (dawn flight calls) Canada Warbler (1 NFC) Savannah Sparrow (4 NFCs) Warbler sp (8 NFCs) Song Sparrows (5+ songs, probably local birds) It’s good to be listening and recording at night again! Has anyone else out there been motivated to start recording or listening. What are you hearing? Sincerely, Chris T-H -- Christopher T. Tessaglia-Hymes Field Applications Engineer Bioacoustics Research Program, Cornell Lab of Ornithology 159 Sapsucker Woods Road, Ithaca, New York 14850 W: 607-254-2418 M: 607-351-5740 F: 607-254-1132 http://www.birds.cornell.edu/brp -- 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/ --
