Hey Rob, Yes, reviewing is the big challenge, especially if you get behind by a few days. I like hand browsing, and just looking for interesting stuff. If there is a good night of interest, I’ll try to log all calls. Of course, my main interest has been in Black-billed Cuckoos for the past few years. Neat mysterious birds. When you do focus on a single bird or on out-of-the-ordinary and other interesting calls, hand browsing can go quickly; but, it’s easy to get bogged down.
Keep it up and thanks for sharing mystery clips in the Facebook NFC group. Feel free to cross-post here, too! :-) Sincerely, Chris T-H On May 8, 2015, at 9:51 PM, Rob Fergus <birdcha...@hotmail.com<mailto:birdcha...@hotmail.com>> wrote: 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<mailto: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<mailto: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 -- 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: 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/>! -- -- 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<tel:607-254-2418> M: 607-351-5740<tel:607-351-5740> F: 607-254-1132<tel: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/ --