I received an email from Doug Gochfield who made a great comment that shorebirds often will overfly the region on favorable winds. So the northwest winds of the next couple days likely will send many birds overhead. However, there is an unusual storm (for August) projected to move into North Carolina by Thursday night which will spread rain east and northeast to NJ and LI. This occurs as the northwest winds aloft weaken, but maybe this will prevent overflight and ground migrants for the upcoming weekend especially for LI. It will be interesting to see if this pans out and I look forward to seeing the LI contingent of birder's reports this weekend!
Dave Nicosia -- NYSbirds-L List Info: http://www.NortheastBirding.com/NYSbirdsWELCOME http://www.NortheastBirding.com/NYSbirdsRULES 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://birdingonthe.net/mailinglists/NYSB.html Please submit your observations to eBird: http://ebird.org/content/ebird/ --
