Re: [nfc-l] [nysbirds-l] Fwd: Minimal Migration or Population Decline?

2013-06-04 Thread birder64
All, My delayed, or lack there of, sightings of many migratory-Adirondack-breeding-species would fall in the same vein as what everyone else is seeing. However, watching the Doppler radar patterns(which I did over much of May) of spring migration species, show just what Chris has

RE: [nysbirds-l] Fwd: Minimal Migration or Population Decline?

2013-06-04 Thread Joan E. Collins
Thank you for this interesting post Chris. This has been a dominate topic of discussion among many birders in the Adirondacks. Sean O'Brien and I have been talking every few days wondering what has happened to many neotropical migrants this year. I mentioned the low numbers of Blackpoll

RE: [nfc-l] Minimal Migration or Population Decline?

2013-06-04 Thread Rob Fergus
I still have to catalog most of the calls from this spring migration (and much of last spring's as well!), so I don't have (yet) the numbers to show any decline this year, but here in NW NJ the winds were not favorable to migration for much of the spring, and that will be easy to show in my

[nfc-l] Minimal Migration or Population Decline?

2013-06-04 Thread Christopher T. Tessaglia-Hymes
Good morning, I am curious to know if recording stations in the Northeast have experienced, numerically – with respect to quantity of night flight calls, a reduced number of migrants this spring as compared to past years. My perception is that there was a noticeable lack of birds moving