Hi, all. I heard three Chipping Sparrow flight calls this morning, Friday, July 18, 2014, at 4:28 a.m. Mountain Daylight Time, Lafayette, eastern Boulder County, Colorado, USA. Calm night, bright moonlight, no wind.
West-to-east vector, as expected: These Chipping Sparrows are midsummer nocturnal migrants flying from pinewoods in the Rocky Mountains to recently discovered molting grounds in far eastern Colorado and western Kansas (and perhaps elsewhere). For me, there is no greater thrill in this life than hearing their tiny voices on hot summer nights in the western Great Plains. People say geese fly south in the autumn, and so they do; also, sparrows fly east in the middle of the summer in the dead of night. Is that cool or what? Ted Floyd Lafayette, Boulder County, Colorado, USA =================================== Ted Floyd Editor, *Birding* magazine Website: http://aba.org/birding Twitter: http://twitter.com/BirdingMagazine <https://twitter.com/BirdingMagazine> The ABA Blog: http://blog.aba.org/ -- NFC-L List Info: http://www.NortheastBirding.com/NFC_WELCOME http://www.NortheastBirding.com/NFC_RULES http://www.NortheastBirding.com/NFC-L_SubscribeConfigurationLeave.htm ARCHIVES: 1) http://www.mail-archive.com/nfc-l@cornell.edu/maillist.html 2) http://www.surfbirds.com/birdingmail/Group/NFC-L 3) http://birdingonthe.net/mailinglists/NFCL.html Please submit your observations to eBird: http://ebird.org/content/ebird/ --
