I’ve been recording almost every night all year, but have not been reviewing recordings until recently. May 4-5 was good and the last night I’ve reviewed. I’ve got a good handful of birds I have no idea about—including a rail or tern type of call that I haven’t pinned down yet, that I posted on the NFC Facebook group.
I need to get into a groove of reviewing my recordings—it just takes a long time to go through a full night manually on my Mac. Rob Fergus Hunterdon County, NJ birdcha...@hotmail.com www.backyardbigyear.com <http://www.backyardbigyear.com/> www.facebook.com/backyardbigyear <http://www.facebook.com/backyardbigyear> > On May 8, 2015, at 10:30 AM, Christopher T. Tessaglia-Hymes > <c...@cornell.edu> wrote: > > 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 <http://www.birds.cornell.edu/brp> > -- > NFC-L List Info: > Welcome and Basics <http://www.northeastbirding.com/NFC_WELCOME> > Rules and Information <http://www.northeastbirding.com/NFC_RULES> > Subscribe, Configuration and Leave > <http://www.northeastbirding.com/NFC-L_SubscribeConfigurationLeave.htm> > Archives: > The Mail Archive <http://www.mail-archive.com/nfc-l@cornell.edu/maillist.html> > Surfbirds <http://www.surfbirds.com/birdingmail/Group/NFC-L> > BirdingOnThe.Net <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/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/ --
