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/ --
