[birdky] Long-billed Murrelet Weather Pattern

Attached is a link to weather maps leading up to the the occurrence of the 
Louisville Long-billed Murrelet discovered 29 October 2002.  Click on the "Next 
Day" link and watch a series of high pressure systems from the Pacific 
Northwest move into the Ohio Valley coupled with lows and rain in our region 
which was responsible for a nice fallout, including a Hudsonian Godwit at the 
Falls on 31 October two days after the murrelet was found which I believe was 
only the 4th Ky record for that species.  Until a pattern of vagrancy into the 
Ohio River Valley for Long-billed Murrelet is established and contradictory, I 
believe the weather and timing was a MAJOR factor.  I did not say that the 
USUAL LOUISVILLE hotspots have not been checked recently, I said the Ohio River 
and Ky/Barkley Lakes.  I have birded Barren Reservoir since the early '70s and 
know that the occurrence and discovery of recent west coast birds is more than 
the "Patagonia Effect".   

http://www.hpc.ncep.noaa.gov/dailywxmap/index_20021019.html

David Roemer
Bowling Green




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