[nfc-l] flight calls in se pa

[Rudolph Keller]

It has been interesting to read what people have been hearing out west. My 
site is my house surrounded by woods on a low ridge in southeastern PA, 
where I sit and listen on my deck from about 5:00 a.m. till daylight on most 
fall mornings, and have for years. (I don't record; for various reasons, 
none good, that Martha Stewart flower pot set-up I built at one of Bill 
Evans' workshops never did make it onto the roof.) Except on heavy flight 
mornings with continuous calling, most calls tend come in about 15-20 
minutes close to daylight. Most calls in August have been of Veery (over 250 
8/15, 20; 100+ on a few other days). Wood Thrush started 8/15 (15) and have 
been increasing since. No classic spring peeper Swainson's calls yet; I may 
be missing some Veery-like calls of these guys. In the last week, more 
variety, with some calls of Baltimore Oriole, Scarlet Tanager, Rose-br. 
Grosbeak, Bobolink and my first ever Caspian Tern. As always, unidentified 
calls, esp. warbler type. Some of the better mornings have been on light W 
or SSW winds with birds descending through clouds.
Rudy Keller
Boyertown, PA
Berks County 



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