Andrew,
I agree w/ Tom Johnson. However, with distant recordings not sure how
you would rule out possible Lesser Yellowlegs. I have similar call (on
which I leaned towards a Greater) posted at:
http://www.nightmigrants.com/main/page_species_calls_greater_yellowlegs.html
Mine is also not a gr
Andrew,
I agree w/ Tom Johnson. However, with distant recordings not sure how
you would rule out possible Lesser Yellowlegs. I have a similar call (on
which I leaned towards a Greater) posted at:
http://www.nightmigrants.com/main/page_species_calls_greater_yellowlegs.html
Mine is also not
Hello all,
I posted to Cayugabirds about analyzing 3.25 minutes recording I did on
Mount Pleasant on 091209 around 10.30 pm, when Bill Evans gave us a night
flight call listening practice. I looked at spectrograms and compared with
spectrograms of Bill Evans CD and I think I come close to man
Was I missing something?
I could barely hear any call at all, nevermind being able to identify it !
Sorry for my tine ear folks.
Rich Guthrie
New Baltimore,
The Greene County
New York
gael...@capital.net
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Andrew,It sounds like a normal Greater Yellowlegs to me (and a great deal
more probable than a flight calling Black Rail in DE). They frequently call
on nocturnal migration with similar calls to those given in the daytime.
Tom
On Mon, Sep 14, 2009 at 8:52 PM, Andrew Albright
wrote:
> Recorded
There were 45 minutes of nocturnal flight calls on nw winds from 5:30-6:15
a.m., averaging about 1/sec. at the beginning and about 3/sec. at the end.
Most calls were of Swainson's and Wood Thrushes, with many fewer calls of
Veery and Gray-cheeked. There was a good candidate for Bicknell's direct
> and the northerly flow from the Canadian boreal forest all the way to
NY/NJ, means
> that birds will be funneled down into the Cape May area by the truckload.
However, that assumes there's a truckload of boreal birds available to be
funneled down. Over the summer I heard various reports of bel
you can read my post from this morning here: http://www.woodcreeper.com/
but I think it's safe to say that calling in sick and heading to Cape May
never looked so inviting. No weather is expected which would cause localized
fallouts, but the promise of NW winds for the next three nights, and the
n