Re:[nfc-l] Listening Party

2011-09-12 Thread Pete Marchetto
Sorry about the lack of working link. Here it is: 
http://regen.birds.cornell.edu/groups/micdev/blog/

Thanks,
Pete

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On Sep 12, 2011, at 7:30 AM, Meena Haribal wrote:

> Hi Pete,
> the link did not work. I would love to listen to it!
> 
> Meena 
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> Meena Haribal
> Ithaca NY 14850
> http://haribal.org/
> http://meenaharibal.blogspot.com/
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> From: bounce-38025654-10061...@list.cornell.edu 
> [bounce-38025654-10061...@list.cornell.edu] On Behalf Of Pete Marchetto 
> [pete.marche...@cornell.edu]
> Sent: Sunday, September 11, 2011 9:11 AM
> To: NFC-L; CAYUGABIRDS-L 
> Subject: [nfc-l] Listening Party
> 
> Yes, to those of you who were speaking into the microphones left on Mt. 
> Pleasant this past Friday night, we can hear you. If you want more 
> information on the designs and how they came to be, please visit 
> http://regen.birds.Cornell.edu/blogs/MicDev/
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> Thanks!
> Pete Marchetto
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Re: [nfc-l] First migration of the season possible tonight in the mid-atlantic?

2011-09-12 Thread Bryan Guarente
Ted and other interested parties,
I ran the HYSPLIT model (page to runyour own HYSPLIT) on your Sept 29, 2008 
date to see what the 6-hr backward trajectories would look like to get to your 
patch by 6AM.  The corresponding plots are here:

http://ready.arl.noaa.gov/hysplit-bin/trajresults.pl?jobidno=385220

You can take a look at those in Google Earth or Google Maps for best 
discrimination of the 6-hr backward trajectories.  If you zoom out and look at 
the general pattern, there must be a high pressure system rolling in from the 
northwest as the trajectories seem to fly these birds from Nebraska/South 
Dakota and back them into the Front Range.  I haven't checked the cloud cover 
or anything like that because you would likely know the information about that 
from in-situ observations.

For further maps, check these out (mean sea-level pressure):
http://virga.sfsu.edu/pub/composites/sathts_snd/0809/08092900_sathts_snd_alt.gif
http://virga.sfsu.edu/pub/composites/sathts_snd/0809/08092906_sathts_snd_alt.gif
http://virga.sfsu.edu/pub/composites/sathts_snd/0809/08092912_sathts_snd_alt.gif

There is a frontal passage at about 00 UTC (the first map), then the high 
pressure system rolls in over time.  The frontal passage seems to be the 
trigger in this case and in a lot of cases with a frontal passage, there is 
along-front flow like what is backing the birds into the Front Range of 
Colorado.  It is always hard to tell how the along-front flow will pan out as 
it depends on a lot of factors (location of the bird or birds on the front, 
depth of front, speed of frontal propagation to name a few).  


If you can pinpoint a better time for the movements that you wanted to target, 
we can be even more accurate, but for now this was my crack at it.

 
Bryan Guarente
Instructional Designer
The COMET Program
University Corporation for Atmospheric Research
Boulder, CO

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[nfc-l] NIght Flight Calls 9/12/11

2011-09-12 Thread david nicosia
Got up before dawn to listen for night migrants. 
Radar echoes were "moderate" as I have seen
much heavier bird migration echoes on radar. 
>From 515 am to 600 am from my deck I heard
the following: 
 
85 SWAINSON'S THRUSH
39 WOOD THRUSH
~ 20 THRUSH sp (wood thrushes and/or veeries???)
11 ROSE-BREASTED GROSBEAK
~ 100 other calls unidenified, mainly "chips, zips and
zeeps".  
 
At first the calls were faint and high up, 
but as sunrise approached the calls 
got louder and louder as the birds were
descending. By 6 am, there was too 
much road noise, dogs
barking etc... but the flight was not over. 
 
Dave Nicosia
Johnson City,  NY 
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