Last night I woke up with a headache at 1:15 and decided to pop some Ibuprofen and tune in to my Oldbird 21c to see what was flying over--there was a big flight going on, and there was finally no cicada noise, so from 1:30-2:30 I got out my handy dandy tally clickers (new from Staples yesterday) to document the flight. In that hour I heard through the Oldbird 21c: Thrush-like calls: 266Tseep type calls: 298 Interestingly, this morning when I ran the Thrush-X and Tseep-X detectors for this period, they only pulled out:Thrush-X detections: 19Tseep-X detections: 72 The total automatic detections for last night were:Thrush-X detections: 112Tseep-X detections: 511 It is going to take me a while to classify these calls, and I will be interested in seeing what a handsort of the hour I listened will turn up. Initially, sounded like mostly Swainson's Thrush, some Gray-cheeked, and Rose-breasted Grosbeak. Looks like I had Chipping Sparrow, Common Yellowthroat, Northern Parula, American Redstart and others among the mix. Most fun might have been the Red-breated Nuthatch that I heard give two quick calls going over at 1:55am, my first NFC detection of this species. I'm playing with the idea of posting Glassofire screen shots of each night's migration, along with interesting .wav files on my blog. In the meantime, here are 63 of the Tseep-X detections from my listening, just for fun.
Rob Fergus Union Township, Hunterdon Co, NJ http://birdchaser.blogspot.com -- 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/ --
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