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<p class=3DMsoNormal><span style=3D'font-size:11.0 The birds are indeed finally starting to move. Regular bird surveys conducted by myself and others throughout NS this week indicate high numbers of birds on Monday, but significantly lower numbers on Tuesday and Wednesday (but still fairly high in wooded areas). One indication of how the birds are "piling up" was my observation of a 'flock' of five Ovenbird near Loganville yesterday. ================================ ---- "Laviolette wrote: > Hi Andy and others, > > I'd just like to add that during the previous three weeks of monitoring the migration on Brier Island, the volume of migrants was constant but low. With little migration having taken place for that long a period in this season and having received reports that the "woods are alive with birds", I would suggest that the morning after the next cold front goes through the province, people should go to their favorite migrant viewing location. A movement of historic proportions sounds about right. > > All the best, > > Lance > > From: naturens-owner@chebucto.ns.ca [mailto:naturens-owner@chebucto.ns.ca] On Behalf Of Andrew Horn > Sent: Wednesday, September 08, 2010 3:28 PM > To: naturens@chebucto.ns.ca > Subject: EXTERNAL: [NatureNS] Big migration forecast > > Hi all, > > A heads up that there's a buzz among the bird radar enthusiasts (e.g. http://www.woodcreeper.com/) and folks who are into recording the night flight calls of nocturnal migrants (emails archived at http://www.surfbirds.com/birdingmail/Group/NFC-L) that the next cold front will bring a particularly big influx of migrants through the northeast, because they've been bottled up for so long by southerly winds. > > The guru of night flight call enthusiasts, Bill Evans, posted (full message here<http://www.surfbirds.com/birdingmail/Mail/NFC-L/773613>) that it will be "potentially a movement of relatively large & perhaps historic proportions." The last time he could remember a period as long as this one (12 nights) without a ma jor flight was in 1992, when hurricane Andrew held things up. > > So there's hope for those of us who missed the frigatebird after all. > > Cheers, > Andy Horn > Halifax > >
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