Sorry for the garbled post. I accidentally hit "send" before I was finished. Arriving trans-Gulf migrants appear to be arriving in the Grande Isle vicinity of the southeast LA coast. John C. Arvin Research Associate Gulf Coast Bird Observatory 103 West Hwy 332 Lake Jackson, TX 77566 jarvin@xxxxxxxx www.gcbo.org Austin, Texas ---------------------------------------- From: "John Arvin" <jarvin@xxxxxxxx> Sent: Tuesday, March 31, 2015 3:16 PM To: "Texbirds" <texbirds@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>, "LABIRD-L" <LABIRD-L@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Subject: Observation of bird migration using weather forecasting technology, 3/31/15 Upper winds are mild (15 kts at Texas stations, 10 at Louisiana stations) and SE to SW. The main activity today is again flocks of kettle-and-glide diurnal migrants (likely raptors; largish flocks of Swainson's Hawks have been reported and Mississippi Kites should be showing up any day now). Most activity is just east of McAllen in the Lower Rio Grande Valley and Migrants are arriving at Grand Isle John C. Arvin Research Associate Gulf Coast Bird Observatory 103 West Hwy 332 Lake Jackson, TX 77566 jarvin@xxxxxxxx www.gcbo.org Austin, Texas Edit your Freelists account settings for TEXBIRDS at //www.freelists.org/list/texbirds Reposting of traffic from TEXBIRDS is prohibited without seeking permission from the List Owner