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style=3D'fo This is a multipart message in MIME format. ------=_NextPart_000_0025_01D098A2.8402E310 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="UTF-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Very good point Richard. It would be very worthwhile to compare eBird = numbers with the nocturnal counts, especially if it can be done within = the same local or county areas. Using the Yellow Warbler example, one = could see that my eBird reports (not yet posted) from ground surveys in = the Canso area on the weekend of May 23-24 show no Yellow Warblers. That = is consistent with the low nocturnal counts the previous few days and = very likely indicates that there has not yet been a general arrival in = the area. =20 From: naturens-owner@chebucto.ns.ca = [mailto:naturens-owner@chebucto.ns.ca] On Behalf Of Richard Stern Sent: May-27-15 13:08 To: naturens@chebucto.ns.ca Subject: Re: [NatureNS] Nocturnal Migration for the Week of May 16-22 at = Canso =20 Interesting as always. I see that Yellow warblers are down, but at least = around here there seem to be more than ever on territory. That suggests = to me that migration for this species has already peaked. I wonder if = there is a good way of comparing your nocturnal call numbers with ebird = numbers from say 2 weeks ago, or are the numbers too small? Richard Stern sternrichard@gmail.com Sent from my iPhone =20 On Wed, May 27, 2015 at 5:14 AM -0700, "John Kearney" = <john.kearney@ns.sympatico.ca> wrote: Hi All, Nocturnal migration was very light this week, less than half the number = of calls recorded during the same period in 2013 at the same location. = Compared to the results posted here for last week, sparrows were down = from 145 to 21 calls, shorebirds from 147 to 3 calls, and warblers were = up from 40 to 71 calls. Swainson=E2=80=99s Thrush had still not arrived. = As a result there were only 2 thrush calls recorded; one Hermit Thrush = and one Veery. Eleven species of warblers were recorded with Magnolia = (26 calls) and Black-and-White (11 calls) being the most common. Yellow = Warblers were conspicuously lower than for the same period in 2013 (6 = calls down from 21 calls). A summary of calls recorded for the week = along with an estimate of the number of individual birds is presented = below. John =20 =09 Night Flight Estimated Species Calls Individuals Magnolia Warbler 26 25 Black-and-White Warbler 11 11 Savannah Sparrow 10 10 Common Yellowthroat 6 6 Yellow Warbler 6 6 Northern Waterthrush 5 5 Unidentified Warbler 5 5 White-throated Sparrow 6 4 Northern Parula 3 3 Yellow-rumped Warbler 3 3 Lincoln's/Swamp Sparrow 3 2 American Redstart 2 2 Black-throated Green Warbler 2 2 American Robin 1 1 Blackpoll Warbler 1 1 Chipping Sparrow 1 1 Unidentified Songbird 1 1 Song Sparrow 1 1 Spotted Sandpiper 3 1 Veery 1 1 Wilson's Warbler 1 1 Total 98 92 =20 =20 =20 ------=_NextPart_000_0025_01D098A2.8402E310 Content-Type: text/html; charset="UTF-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable <html xmlns:v=3D"urn:schemas-microsoft-com:vml" = xmlns:o=3D"urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:office" = xmlns:w=3D"urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:word" = xmlns:m=3D"http://schemas.microsoft.com/office/2004/12/omml" = xmlns=3D"http://www.w3.org/TR/REC-html40"><head><meta = http-equiv=3DContent-Type content=3D"text/html; charset=3Dutf-8"><meta = name=3DGenerator content=3D"Microsoft Word 14 (filtered = medium)"><style><!-- /* Font Definitions */ @font-face {font-family:Calibri; panose-1:2 15 5 2 2 2 4 3 2 4;} @font-face {font-family:"Comic Sans MS"; panose-1:3 15 7 2 3 3 2 2 2 4;} @font-face {font-family:Tahoma; panose-1:2 11 6 4 3 5 4 4 2 4;} /* Style Definitions */ p.MsoNormal, li.MsoNormal, div.MsoNormal {margin:0cm; margin-bottom:.0001pt; font-size:10.0pt; font-family:"Comic Sans MS"; mso-fareast-language:EN-US;} a:link, span.MsoHyperlink {mso-style-priority:99; color:blue; text-decoration:underline;} a:visited, span.MsoHyperlinkFollowed {mso-style-priority:99; color:purple; text-decoration:underline;} span.EmailStyle17 {mso-style-type:personal; font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"; color:windowtext;} span.EmailStyle18 {mso-style-type:personal-reply; font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"; color:#1F497D;} .MsoChpDefault {mso-style-type:export-only; font-size:10.0pt;} @page WordSection1 {size:612.0pt 792.0pt; margin:72.0pt 72.0pt 72.0pt 72.0pt;} div.WordSection1 {page:WordSection1;} --></style><!--[if gte mso 9]><xml> <o:shapedefaults v:ext=3D"edit" spidmax=3D"1026" /> </xml><![endif]--><!--[if gte mso 9]><xml> <o:shapelayout v:ext=3D"edit"> <o:idmap v:ext=3D"edit" data=3D"1" /> </o:shapelayout></xml><![endif]--></head><body lang=3DEN-CA link=3Dblue = vlink=3Dpurple><div class=3DWordSection1><p class=3DMsoNormal><span = style=3D'font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497= D'>Very good point Richard. It would be very worthwhile to compare eBird = numbers with the nocturnal counts, especially if it can be done within = the same local or county areas. Using the Yellow Warbler example, one = could see that my eBird reports (not yet posted) from ground surveys in = the Canso area on the weekend of May 23-24 show no Yellow Warblers. That = is consistent with the low nocturnal counts the previous few days and = very likely indicates that there has not yet been a general arrival in = the area.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=3DMsoNormal><span = style=3D'font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497= D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><div><div = style=3D'border:none;border-top:solid #B5C4DF 1.0pt;padding:3.0pt 0cm = 0cm 0cm'><p class=3DMsoNormal><b><span lang=3DEN-US = style=3D'font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif";mso-fareast-language:EN-CA'>Fr= om:</span></b><span lang=3DEN-US = style=3D'font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif";mso-fareast-language:EN-CA'> = naturens-owner@chebucto.ns.ca [mailto:naturens-owner@chebucto.ns.ca] = <b>On Behalf Of </b>Richard Stern<br><b>Sent:</b> May-27-15 = 13:08<br><b>To:</b> naturens@chebucto.ns.ca<br><b>Subject:</b> Re: = [NatureNS] Nocturnal Migration for the Week of May 16-22 at = Canso<o:p></o:p></span></p></div></div><p = class=3DMsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><div><p class=3DMsoNormal = style=3D'margin-bottom:12.0pt'>Interesting as always. I see that Yellow = warblers are down, but at least around here there seem to be more than =