[va-bird] Re: Tropical storms

[barbara chambers <bj.chambers@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

on 8/12/04 6:40 PM, Phoebetria@xxxxxxx at Phoebetria@xxxxxxx wrote:

Actually the storms should have been named Bonnie and Clyde!  But who knew?
Barbara Chambers

> 
> 
> The passages of Bonnie & (Prince?) Charley this weekend probably won't bring
> with them many entrained seabirds to our area.  Bonnie has been absorbed by
> the frontal boundary and is now described, in s. Georgia, as "extratropical" -
> thus any few seabirds collected by that storm have probably already fallen
> out. 
> The jury is still out on Charley, which could be in Virginia as early as
> Saturday afternoon.  Storms with this sort of coastal track tend to come later
> in 
> the hurricane season (e.g., Josephine in 1996), when the trough's alignment
> with the East Coast is more routine (very unusual for this time of year).  Few
> truly pelagic birds have been seen in such storms in Virginia, but it's always
> worth looking around after the storm has passed, safety permitting.
> 
> Totally unrelated, I picked up a copy of the coffee-table book "The Eastern
> Shore of Virginia Chamber of Commerce 1953-2003", which on pages 100-108 has a
> nice section on the Birding Festival, with abundant color (and a few
> black-and-white) photographs of some of Virginia's birders and banders, among
> them: 
> Mary Arginteanu (p. 100 - with a nice Black-throated Blue Warbler), Karen
> Terwilliger (p. 101), Earl Hodnett (p. 102 - I think Larry Lynch is on this
> page, but 
> he has binoculars to his eyes!), Gary Williamson (p. 103 - in habitat!
> guiding folks by canoe), Grayson 'Butch' Pearce and Brian Sullivan (p. 104 -
> on the 
> hawkwatch, laughing about something), John Dillinger (p. 105 - at the banding
> station), Tony Quezon (p. 106 - in the hawk blind, banding a .. Cooper's or
> Sharpie? in a Pringles can), and David and Linda Hughes, testing optics in
> Peggy 
> Spiegel's set-up (p. 107).  Many other good folks are represented with
> smaller images - my reading glasses are misplaced, and I can't make anyone
> else out 
> despite some squinting!
> 
> Ned Brinkley
> Cape Charles, VA
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