Is the Alfred listing station (not to be confused with "Alfred Station", a
nearby hamlet), on Jericho Hill. This would give it significant elevation.
Could elevation be a factor effecting 2?
Just another thought. By the way. I don't usually post much and there may be
others on this list who are
To: "Bill Evans"
Cc: "CAYUGABIRDS-L" ; "NFC-L"
Sent: Wednesday, September 21, 2011 11:18 AM
Subject: Re: [nfc-l] big night flight tonight
Thanks Bill. I did hear a few typical "Lincoln's/Swamp sparrow" "dt"s
but was not confident enough
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
Pretty fascinating stuff- since the radar reflectivity did not indicate the
'largest' flight of the season for NY State, yet the call rates were clearly
highest. The upper-level winds were out of the WSW last night, which may
have caused 1) more birds to compensate for drift and 2) birds to fly at
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
