Does anyone have their ears on out west? I still don't have my night-recorder set up (old laptop with windows Vista on it. Lousy system!). Haven't seen many stopover birds yet.
From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Chris Tessaglia-Hymes Sent: Sunday, September 16, 2012 4:21 AM To: [email protected] Subject: [nfc-l] Etna, NY: Dickcissel @ 9:07pm The night flight overnight last night (9/15-9/16) was amazing to hear. Near constant flight calls. Wave after wave. Species composition or, at least, prevalence changed throughout the night. Early in the evening (I started listening and recording at 8pm), there was a heavy movement of Rose-breasted Grosbeaks, with various warbler flight calls throughout. There were also occasional Green Heron and Swainson's Thrush flight notes. By mid-night flight, there were very frequent Swainson's Thrush and Gray-cheeked Thrush calls, as well as regular Chestnut-sided Warbler and Black-throated Blue Warbler flight calls. Occasional American Redstart, Ovenbird, and a handful of White-throated Sparrows. What was also interesting was this: I started out recording with my Evans-style flowerpot (with the knowles element), acquiring using Raven Pro on my Macbook Pro. Around 2am, I awoke to an acoustic spectacle that I felt needed to be record with a slightly higher fidelity setup. I place two Rode microphones out on the rooftop and began recording simultaneously with my Zoom H4n recorder. With the latter setup, I was careful to arrange the microphones (and my earbud headphones) such that my right ear was listening to the ENE and my left ear was listening to the WNW. Interestingly, nearly all thrushes heard calling were apparently moving in the distance to the ENE. I did not notice many at all that were as loud heard calling out of the WNW. This makes me wonder if it is at all possible that most of the birds I heard were moving down the valley well to my East. In any case, this was a very memorable night flight. Attached is a Dickcissel that called at about 9:07 last night (I'm browsing through sounds right now - Flowerpot recording). -- 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> Welcome and Basics <http://www.northeastbirding.com/NFC_RULES> Rules and Information <http://www.northeastbirding.com/NFC-L_SubscribeConfigurationLeave.htm> Subscribe, Configuration and Leave Archives: <http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/maillist.html> The Mail Archive <http://www.surfbirds.com/birdingmail/Group/NFC-L> Surfbirds <http://birdingonthe.net/mailinglists/NFCL.html> BirdingOnThe.Net 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/[email protected]/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/ --
