Hi, all. Just a quick report from Colorado.
First, I've missed many nights of late, as I was in New York (along with 95% of everybody else on this list, it seems!) for 8 days in early August. How do you people hear ANYTHING over the katydids and cicadas?? Anyhow, we've had only one decent push of migrants that I've been aware of. On July 31st, between 3am and 4am, Lafayette, e. Boulder County, Colorado: at least 44 Chipping Sparrow flight calls, decently spaced out throughout the hour. Perfect conditions that night: a light westerly wind (our mid-summer movements appear to be due east) and a low cloud ceiling. The past few nights have been super-slow, with just a trickle (4-5 flight calls per hour) of Chipping Sparrows, Lark Sparrows, Common Yellowthroats, and a presumed Vesper Sparrow. Oddly, no Yellow Warblers that I can discern, even though they are swarming the lowlands, giving flight calls constantly, by day. Ted Floyd tedfloy...@hotmail.com Lafayette, Boulder County, Colorado On Aug 13, 2012, at 6:22 AM, david nicosia wrote: > Woke at 430 am and could not fall back asleep. > So instead of counting sheep, I decided to sit on my > deck and count migrating birds or at least try. > I began 450 am and ended at 520 am so it was > a solid half hour...then back to sleep! > > There was a decent flight going on as I could hear > many calls up there that were unidentifiable. > I did have some lower flyers that I was easily > able to ID. > > Numbers aren't high but again there were many more birds > higher up that I could barely hear. > > 15 VEERY, 9 WOOD THRUSH, 3 INDIGO BUNTINGS, > 2 BOBOLINKS, 2 YELLOW WARBLERS and > the best bird for me was a SCARLET TANAGER > that was flying very low and half singing his > song. It was a "whisper" song with a few chip-burrs. > The bird was not flying as fast as he persisted for > 20-30 seconds while calling. > > I also heard my resident SCREECH OWL that > I have not heard in a long time. I also had an AMERICAN > GOLDFINCH call once but this guy probably was a > local bird since I regularly have 20-30 at my feeder > each day. > > 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/ --
