Hi Chris,
How wonderful to be listening in live!I haven't been listening
continuously, but whenever I've tuned in this evening I've heard a steady
stream of flight calls. I'd imagine when I get around to tallying them up,
it will be in the thousands.
Happy Listening,
Larry Clarfeld
Essex Jct., VT
On Fri, Sep 18, 2020 at 1:36 AM Bryan Guarente
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> Christopher,
> Based on your signature location and the current wind pattern:
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> https://earth.nullschool.net/#2020/09/18/0300Z/wind/isobaric/850hPa/orthographic=-77.30,42.81,960/loc=-76.383,42.485
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> You should be seeing this likely through the night with numbers getting
> less as the night goes on but plenty of migrants. I have an article coming
> out in the Fall North American Birds about why this is the case.
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> For the short and sweet, looking at the right altitude for migration, the
> winds are the right direction for fall migrants into your area, the origin
> is quite distant from you, and there is a frontal passage at right this
> time getting you some extra convergence of birds in your area. The larger
> scale pattern shows that there may be better places than where you are in
> terms of large scale convergence, but your pattern is pretty damn good for
> migrants.
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> If you have questions, ask. I am happy to talk more about this.
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> Bryan Guarente
> Meteorologist/Instructional Designer
> The COMET Program
> Boulder, CO
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> On Thu, Sep 17, 2020 at 11:21 PM Christopher T. Tessaglia-Hymes <
> c...@cornell.edu> wrote:
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>> I’ve been listening live in Etna, NY tonight since 10:30pm. This has been
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>> warblers, thrushes, (and tanagers?), grosbeaks, occasional sparrows, all
>> stepping upon one another. First regular groups of Gray-cheeked Thrushes
>> late tonight. One Black-billed Cuckoo.
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>> be interesting to try to run these data through Vesper (I am recording to
>> file sequence using Raven Pro; plus recording the full night with my Swift
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