The flight continues over Ithaca, albeit in lower densities, or at least higher altitude and fainter calls as the low overcast clears off. My second 30 minute count yielded 220 "thrush" calls, nearly all SWAINSON'S, with 12 GRAY-CHEEKED, and about 15 WOOD THRUSH. Very few warblers (only about 10), but I did hear the distinctive double "tsip-tsip" of a BLACK-THROATED BLUE WARBLER.
now to sleep..... KEN Ken Rosenberg Conservation Science Program Cornell Lab of Ornithology 607-254-2412 607-342-4594 (cell) [email protected] On Sep 22, 2011, at 11:48 PM, Michael Lanzone wrote: > I just came inside after listening for over an hour in Somerset, PA and > pretty much the same heavy calling here. Huge flight, sometimes at about 100 > calls per minute. Many thrushes here, but unlike in Ithaca, I predominately > heard warblers and sparrows. Can't wait to look at the file in the am! > > Best, > Mike > > Michael Lanzone > [email protected] > > > On Sep 22, 2011, at 11:23 PM, Kenneth Victor Rosenberg <[email protected]> > wrote: > >> Hi all, >> >> Yet another massive flight over Ithaca tonight -- in fact one of the largest >> flight I can remember over my house. I did a 30 minute count BETWEEN 10:30 >> AND 11, and it was almost too overwhelming for my "naked ear." I counted 390 >> "thrush" calls, with often a layering of multiple calls on top of each other >> as wave after wave of thrushes passed over nearly continuously. A pretty >> careful count of 22 GRAY-CHEEKED THRUSHES, about 40 WOOD THRUSH, about 20 >> calls inflected enough to be ROSE-BREASTED GROSBEAK (I'm never real >> confident with those), and only 2 that I'd call VEERY -- the rest were >> SWAINSON'S THRUSHES. Not as many warbler/sparrow notes as the other night, >> and interestingly almost none of the short "tsip" notes I was hearing then >> -- but rather more high, slightly buzzy "zeeep" notes I associate with Cape >> May Warbler. One long, high "sseeeeep" was a good candidate for >> Grasshopper/Nelson's Sparrow. >> >> That's about all I could do by ear -- disappointed to hear no cuckoos, >> herons, or shorebirds in the mix. Hopefully the recorders did a better job >> of documenting tonight's flight. >> >> KEN >> >> >> Ken Rosenberg >> Conservation Science Program >> Cornell Lab of Ornithology >> 607-254-2412 >> 607-342-4594 (cell) >> [email protected] >> >> >> -- >> >> 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/[email protected]/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/ >> >> -- >> -- 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/[email protected]/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/ --
