I also just finished listening for 30 minutes at Ithaca -- 11:15-11:45 counted 138 "thrush calls, nearly all of which sounded like SWAINSON'S THRUSH. Only 4 GRAY-CHEEKED THRUSH tonight, and no Wood Thrush. Some calls were probably ROSE-BREASTED GROSBEAK, and a couple had a strange "poink" quality that might be Scarlet Tanager? Only about 20 warbler spp. only one of which sounded like a Black-throated Blue (but not doubled).
Last night around the same time, I heard 45 "thrush" calls in 15 minutes before the light drizzle became too steady -- more than half of those were GRAY-CHEEKED. So a different composition of birds each night, and they seem to be taking advantage of the light and variable winds to migrate every night. KEN Ken Rosenberg Conservation Science Program Cornell Lab of Ornithology 607-254-2412 607-342-4594 (cell) k...@cornell.edu<mailto:k...@cornell.edu> On Sep 24, 2011, at 11:47 PM, david nicosia wrote: Listened for one hour this evening 1040 pm to 1140 pm...the flight appears high as skies are clear, winds light southwesterly. Not ideal. Many calls very high up and inaudible. But have had some nice fairly low GRAY-CHEEKED THRUSH and SWAINSONS THRUSH calls. Numbers are as follows: SWAINSON'S THRUSH 48 GRAY-CHEEKED THRUSH 10 WOOD THRUSH 12 HERMIT THRUSH 8 THRUSH sp. 21 Also had one INDIGO BUNTING and what I think was a PALM WARBLER. -- 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/ --
