Wind had shifted north by 5:00 a.m. this morning at my house in Berks Co.,
PA. No calls till 6:00-6:10, when a slug of birds descending through clouds
gave about 300 calls, mostly of Swainson's Thrush and Wood Thrush, with a
sprinkling of Veery and Gray-cheeked and Scarlet Tanager. Two hours
>From 6:00-6:15AM this morning I was hearing 50-80 Swainson's Thrush calls per
>minute over my home in Eugene, Oregon. We had a minor thunderstorm last night
>and the skies remain solid overcast. Since it was about dawn, the birds were
>very low. By 6:30 there were no more calls.
Dave Irons
While migration has been pretty consistent along the east coast (10
consecutive nights of migration, the longest run I've seen in either spring
or fall over the last six years), two nights ago the low pressure system
that rumbled up the east coast effectively shut down migration over the
