All, We are experiencing an incredible stretch of southwest winds that began Wednesday Nov 4th and is expected to last until Tuesday the 10th. That is 7 days of unseasonably mild southwest flow. I ran some wind trajectories from southern Texas and other points in the southwest U.S and most of them end up in southeast Canada in 3 to 5 days. If these winds pick up some stray birds they would eventually make their way south probably mostly along the coast. I wonder if we will see an influx of CAVE SWALLOWS in the northeast like many Novembers. Looking at ebird there have been only a few CAVE SWALLOW reports in southern NJ and in PA/MD, all prior to this warm spell. Also maybe a SCISSOR-TAILED FLYCATCHER or two will show up? The SAGE THRASHER is unrelated to this pattern since it was spotted on Nov 4th after that cold spell (and snow that we had upstate!). Anyway, good luck and enjoy the gorgeous fall weather! It will be interesting to see what shows up.
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/[email protected]/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/ --
