Great Thrush Flight Last Night
Nocturnal migration has been fairly quiet since I started recording on August 1, though there has been decent diversity with a good showing of early season Cape May and Bay-breasted Warblers. Last night (August 17) produced a great dawn thrush flight with more than 100 thrush call notes in four short minutes, mostly Veery but […]
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Star Island – six major rarities in nine years
What will 2022 bring? To sign up for spring or fall, go to starisland.org
Continue Reading →A video short on nocturnal bird migration
This is a lovely video short (five minutes) on nocturnal bird migration that I co-created with saltproject.org It is being submitted to several regional film festivals. Please feel free to share with your friends.
Continue Reading →Birding and my Bionic Ear
I have been recording nocturnal migrants from my yard since the fall of 2012. Although I have pretty good hearing, I need my sleep, and so in 2012 I invested in a parabolic reflector, a mic, and a recorder to do the work for me. Every morning, spring and fall, I check the voicemails to […]
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