Ken asked me to forward this to the list. Sincerely, Chris T-H
-------- Original Message -------- Subject: night birding Date: Mon, 7 Sep 2009 16:34:38 -0400 From: Ken Rosenberg <k...@cornell.edu> Reply-To: Ken Rosenberg <k...@cornell.edu> To: cayugabird...@cornell.edu Hi all, I haven't had much time for day-time birding these past few days, but I've been out every night listening to the sky from my yard. I had large flights of migrants on Friday and Saturday night (around midnight both nights), but last night with SW winds I only heard a few warblers. On Friday and Saturday night I heard large numbers of VEERYs and ROSE-BREASTED GROSBEAKS (over 100 calls in 30 minutes), and I'm pretty sure I heard my first SWAINSON'S THRUSHES on Saturday -- I find early September the trickiest time to i.d. flight calls, as grosbeaks (and probably some tanagers and others mixed in) can overlap the thrushes, at least to me. Another highlight, on Saturday night, I had a LEAST BITTERN fly low over my house, calling at least 4 times very clearly - like a miniature night-heron "wark" It was so low, I thought I might see the silhouette against the fullish moon, but no luck. KEN -- **************************************** Ken Rosenberg Director, Conservation Science Program Cornell Lab of Ornithology 159 Sapsucker Woods Rd, Ithaca, NY 14850 (607) 254-2412 k...@cornell.edu **************************************** -- Cayugabirds-L List Info: http://www.NortheastBirding.com/CayugabirdsWELCOME http://www.NortheastBirding.com/CayugabirdsRULES Temporary archive: http://birdingonthe.net/mailinglists/CAYU.html Please submit your observations to eBird: http://ebird.org/content/ebird/ -- Chris Tessaglia-Hymes Listowner, NFC-L Ithaca, New York c...@cornell.edu http://www.NortheastBirding.com/NFC_WELCOME http://www.NortheastBirding.com/NFC_RULES -- NFC-L List Info: http://www.NortheastBirding.com/NFC_WELCOME http://www.NortheastBirding.com/NFC_RULES http://www.mail-archive.com/nfc-l@cornell.edu/maillist.html --
