Sorry about the lack of working link. Here it is:
http://regen.birds.cornell.edu/groups/micdev/blog/
Thanks,
Pete
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Pete Marchetto
Engineering Physicist, CLO/BRP
Grad Student, MAE/TAM
1.607.254.6281
"Blue canary in the outlet by the light switch,
who
Ted and other interested parties,
I ran the HYSPLIT model (page to runyour own HYSPLIT) on your Sept 29, 2008
date to see what the 6-hr backward trajectories would look like to get to your
patch by 6AM. The corresponding plots are here:
Got up before dawn to listen for night migrants.
Radar echoes were "moderate" as I have seen
much heavier bird migration echoes on radar.
>From 515 am to 600 am from my deck I heard
the following:
85 SWAINSON'S THRUSH
39 WOOD THRUSH
~ 20 THRUSH sp (wood thrushes and/or veeries???)
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