Re: [cayugabirds-l] OOB: Tree swallow migration

2016-09-30 Thread Suan Hsi Yong
I was in Cape May on Monday, and saw a similarly large flock of tree swallows, first gathering, then murmurating like starlings. I did not try to estimate numbers. Here's a lousy iPhone video clip, barely hinting at the scale: https://www.facebook.com/suan.yong/videos/10210920362223036/ Suan

Re:[cayugabirds-l] OOB: Tree swallow migration

2016-09-30 Thread Karen Edelstein
Ooops. No "American" in those tree swallow. Just tree swallows, and maybe they were Canadian, anyway. Sorry about that slip of the keyboard. On Fri, Sep 30, 2016 at 4:22 PM, Karen Edelstein wrote: > Joe Wetmore and I just returned from several days in the Provincetown, MA >

[cayugabirds-l] OOB: Tree swallow migration

2016-09-30 Thread Karen Edelstein
Joe Wetmore and I just returned from several days in the Provincetown, MA area. On Monday, while we were hiking to High Head Beach (North Truro) along the Cape Cod National Seashore, we witnessed what seems to be a fairly lightly documented phenomenon in that area: the massing of American tree