This past weekend, April 14th and 15th, we recorded at night at High Island itself and then the15th at Winnie, Tx to the north. This weekend’s flight of birds may have been the best so far this year due to the fact that the previous week’s winds were not favorable for migration. High winds made it hard to record but I don’t think that was the problem. Both days, radar showed the birds arriving from over the gulf during the early afternoon rather than night. And the most birds of both days seen at High Island was during those afternoons. The large donut hole in the radar over Houston further indicates that the birds were flying high and not many would stop. This might be a rather common condition with recording at gulf sites where trans-gulf migration is the norm.
According to the radar, even the birds coming up from Mexico over land from the Rio Grande Valley and up the coast through Corpus Christi were flying in the day time this weekend. Favorable winds being just too hard to resist, I suppose. So I suspect that even my night recorder that I have in the valley will not have detected much of a flight at night during the best flight so far this year. -Mike Farmer equipment Mic – Oldbird 21c Software – Oldbird tseep, thrush, GlassOFire, Raven Pro -- NFC-L List Info: http://www.NortheastBirding.com/NFC_WELCOME http://www.NortheastBirding.com/NFC_RULES http://www.NortheastBirding.com/NFC-L_SubscribeConfigurationLeave.htm ARCHIVES: 1) http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/maillist.html 2) http://www.surfbirds.com/birdingmail/Group/NFC-L 3) http://birdingonthe.net/mailinglists/NFCL.html Please submit your observations to eBird: http://ebird.org/content/ebird/ --
