We've had a 'resident' GCFL hanging around our woods/creek all summer. I heard and observed him calling as recently as Saturday morning. We're 4 mi north of SSW. I can imagine why eBird wanted a confirmation: I was quite surprised to have him still around even after the cold snap we had!
On 20120918, at 08:43 , Suan Yong wrote: > Last Sunday's morning walk around SSW had a couple of interesting birds in > retrospect. > > First, from the Sherwood platform we heard a few repeated "fweep"s of a Great > Crested Flycatcher. eBird wanted a confirmation, which reminded me of the CBC > trip earlier this spring to Bear Swamp where we also heard repeated fweeps > and thought GCFly but the caller turned out to be a blue-headed vireo. > Sunday's fweeps came from the direction of the feeder blind where we'd > earlier seen a BHVireo high in a tree, so I wonder if that was the caller. > There were no preeting or other vireo phrases or anything else to reaffirm > one bird or the other. > -- > ______________________ Chris Pelkie Research Analyst Bioacoustics Research Program Cornell Lab of Ornithology 159 Sapsucker Woods Road Ithaca, NY 14850 -- Cayugabirds-L List Info: http://www.NortheastBirding.com/CayugabirdsWELCOME http://www.NortheastBirding.com/CayugabirdsRULES http://www.NortheastBirding.com/CayugabirdsSubscribeConfigurationLeave.htm ARCHIVES: 1) http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/maillist.html 2) http://www.surfbirds.com/birdingmail/Group/Cayugabirds 3) http://birdingonthe.net/mailinglists/CAYU.html Please submit your observations to eBird: http://ebird.org/content/ebird/ --
