Re: [nfc-l] Night Flight - Etna, NY: 5/27-5/28

I'm not certain about the ceiling here. At least part of the time that we were out it looked like there was a thin, low ceiling, but that was clearing and the birds kept coming. On 5/28/2014 12:11 PM, Meena Madhav Haribal wrote: > > I too think the cloud ceiling played an important role in

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RE: [nfc-l] Night Flight - Etna, NY: 5/27-5/28

I too think the cloud ceiling played an important role in yesterday's migrants. I could see as the cloud cover became heavier, I heard more calls that sounded to be coming from the closer birds. Yesterday night was one of my best NFC listening nights. Meena From:

Re: [nfc-l] Night Flight - Etna, NY: 5/27-5/28

Laura, I kind of noticed the same. I'm thinking this may have been a low altitude passage of migrants due to the lower cloud ceiling? We had several heavy isolated rain storms pass through overnight and we woke to dense upper elevation fog and moderate amounts of mist at mid-level elevations

[nfc-l] Night Flight - Etna, NY: 5/27-5/28

Early this morning, I did a very cursory review of all audio data from the overnight recording, by hand browsing through spectrograms using Raven Pro. Last night, birds started vocalizing around 9:10pm. Once again, predominant species was Swainson's Thrush with second most predominant species