A significant migration of songbirds and other bird species is predicted for
Minnesota tonight, Thursday, Sept. 3, by the Cornell Lab of Ornithology.
The lab calls this a high-intensity migration, hundreds of thousands to
millions of birds depending on location. The map for the Twin Cities and
Minnesota indicates high traffic.
The prediction for the eastern half of the country is movement of 200 million
individuals.
Assuming birds come to land as morning approaches, and many will to rest and
feed, birding Wednesday could be excellent, a big big day.
The alert arrived this morning via email from a Cornell service called
BirdCast. The site from which notice is sent is Blogtrottr. It is a free
subscription service offered in conjunction with Cornell’s ebird local
notification service.
For more information go to birdcast.info. For subscription information go to
blogtrottr.com
Blogtrottr also reports that purple finches are moving south out of Canada, and
could be feeder visitors in Minnesota this winter. Purple finches are not
regular here in any season.
Jim Williams
Wayzata
Birding blog at
startribune/wingnut
“You don’t start on anything without first consulting the birds.
.… clearly, we are your gods of prophecy.”
— from a play by Aristophanes, via the book ‘Birds in the Ancient World’
by Jeremy Mynott
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