Last night's migration (9/5-9/6) was the best that I've listened to so far this year. Constant warbler calls from about 9pm to 1am, then only sporadic flight notes after that. There was a thrush descent, around the time projected, but not as beefy as I had expected, given the general migrant activity overnight. I'm guessing most migrants cleared my area and ended up much farther south.
Here is my thrush and other bird night flight call count for the descent this morning: 5-5:30am 3 - Swainson's Thrush 1 - Veery 5:30-5:40am 3 - Swainson's Thrush 2 - Veery 2 - Wood Thrush 1 - Warbler "zeep" 1 - Unidentified Shorebird 5:40am-5:50am 1 - Veery 1 - Unidentified Shorebird 1 - Warbler "chip" (probably Black-throated Blue) 1- Savannah Sparrow 1 - Killdeer 5:50am-6:00am (the majority of these commenced at 5:55am and continued just until 6:00am). 73 - Swainson's Thrush 44 - Unidentified Thrush or distant Thrush-like calls 7 - Veery 7 - Wood Thrush 2 - Savannah Sparrow 1- Green Heron 6:00am-6:05am (the calls actually ceased being heard by 6:01am). 2 - Swainson's Thrush 1 - Unidentified Thrush or distant Thrush-like call Other species heard/identified throughout the night while listening live or with the use of Raven's spectrogram display and with some referencing to the Evans-O'Brien NFC CD: Green Heron Chestnut-sided Warbler American Redstart Black-throated Blue Warbler Common Yellowthroat Indigo Bunting Black-billed Cuckoo Veery Swainson's Thrush Wood Thrush Rose-breasted Grosbeak Canada Warbler Mourning Warbler Savannah Sparrow Bay-breasted Warbler Blackpoll-type Warbler Wilson's Warbler Ovenbird Fun night and I hope others in the Northeast had an opportunity to listen, too! Good birding! 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/ --
