Last night was a pretty good night. Below are some basic tallies and highlights. Unless specifically mentioned, the tallies are the total number of calls observed and logged, ignoring possible repeated calls from the same individual. All data were hand browsed and classified visually and/or aurally, using Raven Pro. Very little time was taken to further refine identity of most of the NFC's logged. Identification was attempted on few good call examples.
Total Night Flight Calls logged: 380 Total Warbler calls logged: 277 Total Thrush calls logged: 78 Total non-Warbler and non-Thrush calls logged: 25 Highlights (in no particular order): 5 different BLACK-BILLED CUCKOOS 1 YELLOW-BILLED CUCKOO 1 definitive DICKCISSEL (at 00:26; I actually heard this bird call as I was drifting off to sleep - later found it during analysis) 2 distant DICKCISSEL candidates 1 distant GRAY-CHEEKED THRUSH candidate 4-6 AMERICAN REDSTARTS 1-2 BLACK-AND-WHITE WARBLERS 1 MOURNING WARBLER (nice example) 3 BOBOLINKS 1 BLACK-THROATED BLUE WARBLER 1 possible Flycatcher "whit" note 1 SWAINSON'S THRUSH 8 VEERYS 15 WOOD THRUSHES 1 possible CEDAR WAXWING call It was an enjoyable night to listen, simultaneous to the data acquisition, last night. As an aside, on the morning of 8 August, during the thrush descent, a single UPLAND SANDPIPER called two different times as it passed overhead. Good night listening! Sincerely, Chris T-H -- Christopher T. Tessaglia-Hymes Field Applications Engineer Bioacoustics Research Program, Cornell Lab of Ornithology 159 Sapsucker Woods Road, Ithaca, New York 14850 W: 607-254-2418 M: 607-351-5740 F: 607-254-1132 http://www.birds.cornell.edu/brp -- 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/ --
