Re: [nfc-l] Nocturnal Calls This morning
After I posted my question to this list, I recorded last Sunday night for about 10 minutes before a strong line of win and thunderstorms hit (it was very calm right before the rain/wind hit). I probably heard ~20-30 total birds (good for here), one of which sounded like a larger bird that came in low, circled and was looking for a place to land. I'm still going through what I have now and comparing it to 'Flight Calls of Migratory Birds' by Evans and O'Brien. I heard recorded two nfc calls, which lead me to a couple of questions: 1) Is there any reason why shorebirds aren't included? (I just listened to Stokes shorebirds as that was my first guess) 2) My best guess is Semipalmated and Least Sandpiper. Would these be reasonable guesses based on location and time? If anyone likes to listen to poor WMA files and wants an ID challenge, I can email you what I have. Sincerely, Andrew Albright Southeast PA On Mon, May 16, 2011 at 8:53 AM, david nicosia wrote: > Woke up at 4 am this morning and was not that tired > so decided to sit out on my deck and see what kind of > migration was taking place. I checked the radar and there > was fairly heavy migration south of my location with > much less farther north. Cloud ceilings were very low > as occasional fog clipped the top of the trees on > the hill where I live. Winds were from the north as > we were north of a frontal system. Migrants were > likely descending as they ran into lower cloud ceilings > and north winds? Anyway, the calls were low and > quite loud but the numbers were not that impressive > at least compared to fall. > > I had the following in 40 minutes of listening: > > 4 veeries, 4 swainson's thrushes, 3 wood thrushes, > 1 bobolink, 2 solitary sandpipers and 19 unidentified > zeeps, chips and zitswarblers/sparrows?? That is > a total of 33 calls in 40 minutes...almost 1 per minute. > > Dave Nicosia > Johnson City, NY > > > > > -- > NFC-L List Info: > Welcome and Basics > Rules and Information > Subscribe, Configuration and Leave > Archives: > The Mail Archive > Surfbirds > BirdingOnThe.Net > Please submit your observations to eBird! > -- -- 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/ --
Re: [nfc-l] Nocturnal Calls This morning
Out birding big wave of migrants! Sent from my Verizon Wireless BlackBerry -Original Message- From: Michael Lanzone Sender: bounce-29201425-9667...@list.cornell.edu Date: Mon, 16 May 2011 09:52:35 To: Bill Evans Reply-To: Michael Lanzone Cc: david nicosia; Subject: Re: [nfc-l] Nocturnal Calls This morning In south central PA (Somerset) there was fairly heavy calling activity between 10:30-12:30am. There was a fairly significat fallout during the night early am hours of Fri/Sat here. A lot of those birds were still around in decent numbers yesterday, and things were fairly quiet this am, so I suspect a lot of the birds that fell out the last several days with the rain here moved out between showers last night. Best, Mike Michael Lanzone mlanz...@gmail.com On Mon, May 16, 2011 at 9:20 AM, Bill Evans wrote: > From 10PM-4AM last night I only recorded two "chips" (Chestnut-sided and > Canada types) from my residence ~6 miles south of Ithaca, so I suspect > that few of the migrants indicated on PA NEXRADs last night were making it > this far north -- perhaps a complex fallout zone across the southern tier of > NY and northern PA this morning. > > Bill E > > - Original Message - > *From:* david nicosia > *To:* NFC-L@cornell.edu > *Sent:* Monday, May 16, 2011 8:53 AM > *Subject:* [nfc-l] Nocturnal Calls This morning > > Woke up at 4 am this morning and was not that tired > so decided to sit out on my deck and see what kind of > migration was taking place. I checked the radar and there > was fairly heavy migration south of my location with > much less farther north. Cloud ceilings were very low > as occasional fog clipped the top of the trees on > the hill where I live. Winds were from the north as > we were north of a frontal system. Migrants were > likely descending as they ran into lower cloud ceilings > and north winds? Anyway, the calls were low and > quite loud but the numbers were not that impressive > at least compared to fall. > > I had the following in 40 minutes of listening: > > 4 veeries, 4 swainson's thrushes, 3 wood thrushes, > 1 bobolink, 2 solitary sandpipers and 19 unidentified > zeeps, chips and zitswarblers/sparrows?? That is > a total of 33 calls in 40 minutes...almost 1 per minute. > > Dave Nicosia > Johnson City, NY > > > > > -- > *NFC-L List Info:* > Welcome and Basics <http://www.northeastbirding.com/NFC_WELCOME> > Rules and Information <http://www.northeastbirding.com/NFC_RULES> > Subscribe, Configuration and > Leave<http://www.northeastbirding.com/NFC-L_SubscribeConfigurationLeave.htm> > *Archives:* > The Mail Archive<http://www.mail-archive.com/nfc-l@cornell.edu/maillist.html> > Surfbirds <http://www.surfbirds.com/birdingmail/Group/NFC-L> > BirdingOnThe.Net <http://birdingonthe.net/mailinglists/NFCL.html> > *Please submit your observations to eBird<http://ebird.org/content/ebird/> > !* > -- > > -- > *NFC-L List Info:* > Welcome and Basics <http://www.northeastbirding.com/NFC_WELCOME> > Rules and Information <http://www.northeastbirding.com/NFC_RULES> > Subscribe, Configuration and > Leave<http://www.northeastbirding.com/NFC-L_SubscribeConfigurationLeave.htm> > *Archives:* > The Mail Archive<http://www.mail-archive.com/nfc-l@cornell.edu/maillist.html> > Surfbirds <http://www.surfbirds.com/birdingmail/Group/NFC-L> > BirdingOnThe.Net <http://birdingonthe.net/mailinglists/NFCL.html> > *Please submit your observations to eBird<http://ebird.org/content/ebird/> > !* > -- > -- 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/ -- -- 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/ --
Re: [nfc-l] Nocturnal Calls This morning
In south central PA (Somerset) there was fairly heavy calling activity between 10:30-12:30am. There was a fairly significat fallout during the night early am hours of Fri/Sat here. A lot of those birds were still around in decent numbers yesterday, and things were fairly quiet this am, so I suspect a lot of the birds that fell out the last several days with the rain here moved out between showers last night. Best, Mike Michael Lanzone mlanz...@gmail.com On Mon, May 16, 2011 at 9:20 AM, Bill Evans wrote: > From 10PM-4AM last night I only recorded two "chips" (Chestnut-sided and > Canada types) from my residence ~6 miles south of Ithaca, so I suspect > that few of the migrants indicated on PA NEXRADs last night were making it > this far north -- perhaps a complex fallout zone across the southern tier of > NY and northern PA this morning. > > Bill E > > - Original Message - > *From:* david nicosia > *To:* NFC-L@cornell.edu > *Sent:* Monday, May 16, 2011 8:53 AM > *Subject:* [nfc-l] Nocturnal Calls This morning > > Woke up at 4 am this morning and was not that tired > so decided to sit out on my deck and see what kind of > migration was taking place. I checked the radar and there > was fairly heavy migration south of my location with > much less farther north. Cloud ceilings were very low > as occasional fog clipped the top of the trees on > the hill where I live. Winds were from the north as > we were north of a frontal system. Migrants were > likely descending as they ran into lower cloud ceilings > and north winds? Anyway, the calls were low and > quite loud but the numbers were not that impressive > at least compared to fall. > > I had the following in 40 minutes of listening: > > 4 veeries, 4 swainson's thrushes, 3 wood thrushes, > 1 bobolink, 2 solitary sandpipers and 19 unidentified > zeeps, chips and zitswarblers/sparrows?? That is > a total of 33 calls in 40 minutes...almost 1 per minute. > > Dave Nicosia > Johnson City, NY > > > > > -- > *NFC-L List Info:* > Welcome and Basics <http://www.northeastbirding.com/NFC_WELCOME> > Rules and Information <http://www.northeastbirding.com/NFC_RULES> > Subscribe, Configuration and > Leave<http://www.northeastbirding.com/NFC-L_SubscribeConfigurationLeave.htm> > *Archives:* > The Mail Archive<http://www.mail-archive.com/nfc-l@cornell.edu/maillist.html> > Surfbirds <http://www.surfbirds.com/birdingmail/Group/NFC-L> > BirdingOnThe.Net <http://birdingonthe.net/mailinglists/NFCL.html> > *Please submit your observations to eBird<http://ebird.org/content/ebird/> > !* > -- > > -- > *NFC-L List Info:* > Welcome and Basics <http://www.northeastbirding.com/NFC_WELCOME> > Rules and Information <http://www.northeastbirding.com/NFC_RULES> > Subscribe, Configuration and > Leave<http://www.northeastbirding.com/NFC-L_SubscribeConfigurationLeave.htm> > *Archives:* > The Mail Archive<http://www.mail-archive.com/nfc-l@cornell.edu/maillist.html> > Surfbirds <http://www.surfbirds.com/birdingmail/Group/NFC-L> > BirdingOnThe.Net <http://birdingonthe.net/mailinglists/NFCL.html> > *Please submit your observations to eBird<http://ebird.org/content/ebird/> > !* > -- > -- 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/ --
Re: [nfc-l] Nocturnal Calls This morning
>From 10PM-4AM last night I only recorded two "chips" (Chestnut-sided and >Canada types) from my residence ~6 miles south of Ithaca, so I suspect that >few of the migrants indicated on PA NEXRADs last night were making it this far >north -- perhaps a complex fallout zone across the southern tier of NY and >northern PA this morning. Bill E - Original Message - From: david nicosia To: NFC-L@cornell.edu Sent: Monday, May 16, 2011 8:53 AM Subject: [nfc-l] Nocturnal Calls This morning Woke up at 4 am this morning and was not that tired so decided to sit out on my deck and see what kind of migration was taking place. I checked the radar and there was fairly heavy migration south of my location with much less farther north. Cloud ceilings were very low as occasional fog clipped the top of the trees on the hill where I live. Winds were from the north as we were north of a frontal system. Migrants were likely descending as they ran into lower cloud ceilings and north winds? Anyway, the calls were low and quite loud but the numbers were not that impressive at least compared to fall. I had the following in 40 minutes of listening: 4 veeries, 4 swainson's thrushes, 3 wood thrushes, 1 bobolink, 2 solitary sandpipers and 19 unidentified zeeps, chips and zitswarblers/sparrows?? That is a total of 33 calls in 40 minutes...almost 1 per minute. Dave Nicosia Johnson City, NY -- NFC-L List Info: Welcome and Basics Rules and Information Subscribe, Configuration and Leave Archives: The Mail Archive Surfbirds BirdingOnThe.Net Please submit your observations to eBird! -- -- 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/ --
[nfc-l] Nocturnal Calls This morning
Woke up at 4 am this morning and was not that tired so decided to sit out on my deck and see what kind of migration was taking place. I checked the radar and there was fairly heavy migration south of my location with much less farther north. Cloud ceilings were very low as occasional fog clipped the top of the trees on the hill where I live. Winds were from the north as we were north of a frontal system. Migrants were likely descending as they ran into lower cloud ceilings and north winds? Anyway, the calls were low and quite loud but the numbers were not that impressive at least compared to fall. I had the following in 40 minutes of listening: 4 veeries, 4 swainson's thrushes, 3 wood thrushes, 1 bobolink, 2 solitary sandpipers and 19 unidentified zeeps, chips and zitswarblers/sparrows?? That is a total of 33 calls in 40 minutes...almost 1 per minute. Dave Nicosia Johnson City, NY -- 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/ --