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There appears to be a definite eastern component to this fall's migrati= on due in part to the persistent NE/E winds we have had but also some stro= ng upper air flows from Greenland and NE Canada blowing over northeastern = USA and adjacent Canada. Increased numbers of jaegers, red phalaropes as f= ar west as North Dakota, Arctic (note the two c's) terns and inland purple= sandpipers, increased numbers of red knots, even a multitude of wheatea= rs in the Northeast and at Thunder Bay. We should be looking for brant, m= aybe alcids, maybe Greenland white-fronted Geese, barnacle geese, northern gannets, maybe even the fabled northern fulmar which has been recorded = near the east side of Lake Superior in Ontario in other years. This weather= pattern is quite unusual and more surprises are in store. Bob Russell,= Dakota County= --0__=09BBFB65DFDF200F8f9e8a93df938690918c09BBFB65DFDF200F Content-transfer-encoding: quoted-printable Content-type: text/html; charset=US-ASCII Content-Disposition: inline <html><body> <p>There appears to be a definite eastern component to this fall's migr= ation due in part to the persistent NE/E winds we have had but also som= e strong upper air flows from Greenland and NE Canada blowing over nort= heastern USA and adjacent Canada. Increased numbers of jaegers, red ph= alaropes as far west as North Dakota, Arctic (note the two c's) terns a= nd inland purple sandpipers, increased numbers of red knots, even a mul= titude of wheatears in the Northeast and at Thunder Bay. We should be = looking for brant, maybe alcids, maybe Greenland white-fronted Geese, b= arnacle geese, northern gannets, maybe even the fabled northern fulmar = which has been recorded near the east side of Lake Superior in Ontario = in other years. This weather pattern is quite unusual and more surpris= es are in store. Bob Russell, Dakota County</body></html>= --0__=09BBFB65DFDF200F8f9e8a93df938690918c09BBFB65DFDF200F--
