All, We have endured a prolonged cool spell with plenty of rain and many of our neotropical migrants are late or their main "surge" of numbers has been delayed, at least here in the southern tier. Looking at the weather models, from Tuesday night through Wednesday night a strong surge of warm southerly winds are expected from the Gulf of Mexico all the way through the Ohio Valley to the northeast U.S. I would expect a lot of our neotropical migrants to surge in and even the later ones too, like tennessee, cape may, bay-breast, wilsons, canada warblers and even blackpoll. I know I left many off...
For additional more in-depth specie forecasts see ebird's "birdcast". Dave Nicosia -- NYSbirds-L List Info: http://www.NortheastBirding.com/NYSbirdsWELCOME.htm http://www.NortheastBirding.com/NYSbirdsRULES.htm http://www.NortheastBirding.com/NYSbirdsSubscribeConfigurationLeave.htm ARCHIVES: 1) http://www.mail-archive.com/nysbirds-l@cornell.edu/maillist.html 2) http://www.surfbirds.com/birdingmail/Group/NYSBirds-L 3) http://birding.aba.org/maillist/NY01 Please submit your observations to eBird: http://ebird.org/content/ebird/ --
