I got finished by with work at 11 pm last evening and in the parking lot before I got into my car I heard a "stream" of chips, zips, zeets and zeeps! I listened for about 5 minutes and it was constant. There were at least 3 SOLITARY SANDPIPERS that flew by. Additionally, I was surprised to hear a BARN SWALLOW and right before I left an early SWAINSON'S THRUSH!! The birds were very low as cloud ceilings has dropped to a few hundred feet and there was a heavy drizzle falling.
When I arrived at home which is at 1300 feet a few hundred feet lower than the airport I still could hear the chips, zips and zeeps etc but they were higher up. I listened for several more minutes and heard one more SOLITARY SANDPIPER but nothing else than I could ID. The radar shows modest echoes at this time. Dave Nicosia -- NYSbirds-L List Info: http://www.NortheastBirding.com/NYSbirdsWELCOME http://www.NortheastBirding.com/NYSbirdsRULES http://www.NortheastBirding.com/NYSbirdsSubscribeConfigurationLeave.htm ARCHIVES: 1) http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/maillist.html 2) http://www.surfbirds.com/birdingmail/Group/NYSBirds-L 3) http://birdingonthe.net/mailinglists/NYSB.html Please submit your observations to eBird: http://ebird.org/content/ebird/ --
