Fwd: [nfc-l] Chipping Sparrows, eastern Boulder County, Colorado - and cuckoo lore

2013-07-23 Thread Kenneth V. Rosenberg
: Re: [nfc-l] Chipping Sparrows, eastern Boulder County, Colorado - and cuckoo lore Date: July 23, 2013 10:26:01 AM EDT To: "Kenneth V. Rosenberg" mailto:k...@cornell.edu>> And lest we all think we discover new things, here is an excerpt I recently discovered while doing research on w

Re: [nfc-l] Chipping Sparrows, eastern Boulder County, Colorado - and cuckoo lore

2013-07-23 Thread Kenneth V. Rosenberg
Yes, most of my YEWAs have been zeeping during the day (including one out my window right now), and especially around dusk. I'm still not hearing much at night from my house, but I just listen (sporadically) and don't have a recording set-up. I remember you talking about the molt-moivements of

Re: [nfc-l] Chipping Sparrows, eastern Boulder County, Colorado

2013-07-23 Thread Ted Floyd
P.s. Re: Yellow Warblers zeeping everywhere. Same here (Boulder County, Colorado), but rarely at night. I don't think I'm just missing them, since I'm perfectly able to hear (and record) them by day. They just don't seem to call at night; maybe they just don't move at night, either, out West.

Re: [nfc-l] Chipping Sparrows, eastern Boulder County, Colorado

2013-07-23 Thread Ted Floyd
Hi, all. [Chipping Sparrow just flew over at 4:10 a.m., Mountain Daylight Time, i.e., during astronomical dawn, eastern Boulder County, Colorado, USA, Tuesday, July 23rd.] Cool observations and speculation from Ken. One point of clarification: In contrast to the situation with Ken's thrashers,

Re: [nfc-l] Chipping Sparrows, eastern Boulder County, Colorado

2013-07-20 Thread Kenneth V. Rosenberg
There's definitely some mid- summer shuffling going on, as I've had singing Wood thrush, Veery, Brown Thrasher, and Scarlet Tanager in new places this past week. Fascinating to think they disperse a night between broods. Meanwhile Yellow Warblers zeeping everywhere- should be a mass exodus

Re: [nfc-l] Chipping Sparrows, eastern Boulder County, Colorado

2013-07-20 Thread Jeff Wells
And I heard a Wood Thrush overhead around 10 PM a few nights ago here in Gardiner, Maine Jeff Wells Sent from my iPhone On Jul 20, 2013, at 4:44 AM, "Ted Floyd" mailto:tfl...@aba.org>> wrote: Hello, everybody. A quick check-in here from somewhere other than the Cayuga Basin... :-)

[nfc-l] Chipping Sparrows, eastern Boulder County, Colorado

2013-07-20 Thread Ted Floyd
Hello, everybody. A quick check-in here from somewhere other than the Cayuga Basin... :-) Chipping Sparrows are moving over Lafayette, eastern Boulder County, USA, in the 2am hour right now, Saturday, July 20th. We believe that these are birds bailing on their mountain breeding grounds for