Date: 4/20/24 6:16 am From: Bob Reed via groups.io <bobreed1987...> Subject: Re: [ALbirds] Analysis of yesterday's coastal birding
Bob,
What is your take on birding weather for tomorrow? To my unpracticed eye, it looks good on this end for a fallout. What about launch conditions?
We're at DI.
Thanks,
Bob
On Thu, Apr 4, 2024, 09:14 Lucy & Bob Email <RobertADuncan...> wrote:
> Hi all, > > Looking at reports from St. Marks to Dauphin Is., the front with its > strong NW & W winds vectored a Trans-Gulf movement to the eastern > Panhandle. Elizabeth Hawkins described what was a classic fallout at St. > George Is. and St. Marks had a large fallout of R. E. Vireos. > > Over here in the western Panhandle we came up short, as expected. Checking > the paucity of reports from the AL coast, birders there suffered the same > fate. Disappointingly, few if any migrants came in to Gulf Breeze overnight > from what I have observed so far. > > The rain associated with the front dissipated as it approached the > Pensacola area but regenerated and extended into the Gulf as it approached > the eastern Panhandle, producing classic fallout conditions there. Lucky > were the birders who braved the weather and got in on the spectacle! > > For the benefit of the legions of new birders in the area, I cannot > emphasize enough the importance that WIND DIRECTION AND VELOCITY have on > where and when migrants coming from the tropics will make landfall. > Cornell's BIRDCAST is great (but not infallible) for predicting *Fall *movements > coming into our area, but it does not help us when it comes to Spring > migration. So for that, we must rely on weather information available to > us. I rely heavily on the Marine Forecast (NOAA) for wind forecasts about a > week ahead. > > NW winds will abate by Sat. and swing around to SE and migration will > resume, with the thrust toward the TX - LA coasts through Sun. Beyond that, > watch the forecast but don't forget West Indian migrants can still be > moving through our area. > > Bob Duncan > Gulf Breeze, FL > > > > > -- > Lucy and Bob Duncan > Gulf Breeze, Florida > >
