[texbirds] Re: observation of bird migration using weather forecasting technology, 4/6
- From: Joseph Kennedy <josephkennedy36@xxxxxxxxx>
- To: John Arvin <jarvin@xxxxxxxx>
- Date: Sun, 6 Apr 2014 15:58:46 -0500
I have had 2 smallish groups of franklin's gulls today over the house
heading northwest and fairly low down. The other times I have had the
species here they had been fairly high up but the cloud/fog deck is just
over 1000 feet per the news so they apparently would rather see where they
are going than navigate blind in the clouds. Which would agree with the
radar assessment.
On Sun, Apr 6, 2014 at 3:30 PM, John Arvin <jarvin@xxxxxxxx> wrote:
> It is frustrating to be laid up with a broken ankle and see conditions on
> the various weather instruments that almost surely are producing
> significant fallouts along the coast as well as inland. The winds are S
> between 25 and 30 knots and a long train of stormy weather stretches from
> Galveston Bay northeastward through eastern Texas and on through the south.
> The weather masks the bird returns except in southern Texas (especially
> Brownsville) which is too far south to benefit from the rain producing
> weather systems. There are some impressive flocks moving north along the
> Laguna Madre. These are almost surely Franklin's Gulls as the Laguna is the
> main flyway for Franklin's. These rosy pink gulls cross the Isthmus of
> Tehuantepec from the Pacific coast to the Gulf coast and then north along
> the east coast of Mexico and north through coastal Texas before spreading
> out to migrate overland.
> John C. Arvin
> Research Associate
> Gulf Coast Bird Observatory
> 103 West Hwy 332
> Lake Jackson, TX 77566
> jarvin@xxxxxxxx
> www.gcbo.org
>
> Austin, Texas
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