Re: [nfc-l] Nocturnal Calls This morning

2011-05-17 Thread Andrew Albright
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
>
>
>
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Re: [nfc-l] Nocturnal Calls This morning

2011-05-16 Thread daven1024
Out birding big wave of migrants!
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From: Michael Lanzone 
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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
>
>
>
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Re: [nfc-l] Nocturnal Calls This morning

2011-05-16 Thread Michael Lanzone
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
>
>
>
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Re: [nfc-l] Nocturnal Calls This morning

2011-05-16 Thread Bill Evans
>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 




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[nfc-l] Nocturnal Calls This morning

2011-05-16 Thread david nicosia
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 
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