FreeLists / tn-bird / [tn-bird] Re: HUGE migrant flight

["Bill Darnell" <bdarnel3@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

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> Birds were definitely on the move south through Knoxville
> Saturday night.
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> After the nerve-racking sixth overtime and final escape
> with victory by the Vols, I decided to sit out on the
> deck for a bit.  An unbelievable number of birds could
> be heard passing overhead.  I stayed out from about
> 12:40 to 1:20 AM during which time I heard several hundred
> calling migrants heading southwest along the ridgeline.
>
> I did a couple of 5-min counts:
> from 12:51 - 12:56 AM, 35 migrants heard,
> from 1:00 - 1:05 AM, 68 migrants heard!
>
> It was a nearly constant stream of birds the whole time
> I was listening.  Unfortunately, I haven't picked up
> either of the new CDs out there for IDing the night
> migration calls of songbirds so I couldn't ID anything
> I heard but I was able to separate out 5 or 6 easily
> distinguishable calls. The two most common was a
> warbler-like, short, sharp chip note and a thrush-like,
> fairly short `quer' call.  Another failry common type
> of call was a very short trill.  There were a couple
> of longer, clearly different variations on the `quer'
> call as well.
>
> If anyone out there has positive experience building
> one of those flower-pot microphones, I'd love to hear
> from you.  I'm hoping to put one of those together and
> put it to use.
>
> Earlier Saturday, while mowing the lawn, I had my first
> migrating raptor of the fall.  An Osprey circled overhead
> a few times to gain altitude then headed off southwest
> along the ridgeline.  Yard bird #101.
>
>
> Dean Edwards
> Knoxville, TN
>

Dean, if you find some way to rig up an inexpensive "super ear", let me
know!  I can hear if there is no noise pollution, but where do you find a
place like that? :-)  However, if there is background noise, I really need
help!
Bill
Savannah, TN

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