Re:[cayugabirds-l] [nfc-l] big night flight tonight

2011-09-21 Thread Bill Evans
Ken, I'm not confident in separting Lincoln's and Swamp either, but last night was the first night this season that such calls were fairly abundant and I presume they were Lincoln's due to that species' earlier fall migration pattern in the region (based on diurnal records). Your listening si

Re:[cayugabirds-l] [nfc-l] big night flight tonight

2011-09-21 Thread Kenneth Victor Rosenberg
Thanks Bill. I did hear a few typical "Lincoln's/Swamp sparrow" "dt"s but was not confident enough to report. If there were that few Black-throated Blues, I'm curious what most of the abrupt "tsip" notes might have been? There were certainly way fewer of what I would consider typical buzzy D

Re:[cayugabirds-l] [nfc-l] big night flight tonight

2011-09-21 Thread Bill Evans
Ken appears to have tuned into one of the biggest calling night of the season so far in central NY. The acoustic station at Alfred Station, NY logged its season high number (988) of warbler and sparrow flight calls last night between 8:30PM-5:30AM. Based on spectrographic analysis roughly 4 out