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Index of Subjects This is a multi-part message in MIME format. --Boundary_(ID_129Hys9UUYIY6FwFBX4Wdw) Content-type: text/plain; charset=utf-8; format=flowed Content-transfer-encoding: 8BIT Cool, John. Thank you! Lois Codling On 4/19/2018 1:05 PM, John Kearney wrote: > > Hi all, > > I did a little analysis this morning of weather, bird distributions, > and wind modeling. It looks like 2 different sources arising from the > same weather system brought the Indigo Buntings. The first group was > off the coast of the Carolinas on the evening of 15 April and arrived > in western Nova Scotia on the afternoon of 16 April. The other group > left or was in the vicinity of Bermuda the evening of 16 April > arriving over an extensive geographical area of Nova Scotia on the > afternoon of the 17^th but focused on the South Shore. This last group > was accompanied by some Rose-breasted Grosbeaks and Blue Grosbeaks > which are common spring migrants in Bermuda in the spring. I suspect > most birds arrived via Bermuda. > > This has probably happened fairly regularly in the past but we are > more aware of it now because it is a species that is so noticeable at > bird feeders and lawns and people have a reporting tool on Facebook. > > John > --Boundary_(ID_129Hys9UUYIY6FwFBX4Wdw) Content-type: text/html; charset=utf-8 Content-transfer-encoding: 8BIT <html> <head> <meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"> </head> <body text="#000000" bgcolor="#FFFFFF"> Cool, John. Thank you!<br> Lois Codling<br> <br> <div class="moz-cite-prefix">On 4/19/2018 1:05 PM, John Kearney wrote:<br> </div> <blockquote type="cite" cite="mid:000001d3d7f8$467b66f0$d37234d0$@ns.sympatico.ca"> <meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"> <meta name="Generator" content="Microsoft Word 15 (filtered medium)"> <style><!-- /* Font Definitions */ @font-face {font-family:"Cambria Math"; panose-1:2 4 5 3 5 4 6 3 2 4;} @font-face {font-family:Calibri; panose-1:2 15 5 2 2 2 4 3 2 4;} @font-face {font-family:"Comic Sans MS"; panose-1:3 15 7 2 3 3 2 2 2 4;} /* Style Definitions */ p.MsoNormal, li.MsoNormal, div.MsoNormal {margin:0cm; margin-bottom:.0001pt; font-size:10.0pt; font-family:"Comic Sans MS"; mso-fareast-language:EN-US;} a:link, span.MsoHyperlink {mso-style-priority:99; color:blue; text-decoration:underline;} a:visited, span.MsoHyperlinkFollowed {mso-style-priority:99; color:purple; text-decoration:underline;} span.EmailStyle17 {mso-style-type:personal-compose; font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif; color:windowtext;} .MsoChpDefault {mso-style-type:export-only; font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif; mso-fareast-language:EN-US;} @page WordSection1 {size:612.0pt 792.0pt; margin:72.0pt 72.0pt 72.0pt 72.0pt;} div.WordSection1 {page:WordSection1;} --></style><!--[if gte mso 9]><xml> <o:shapedefaults v:ext="edit" spidmax="1026" /> </xml><![endif]--><!--[if gte mso 9]><xml> <o:shapelayout v:ext="edit"> <o:idmap v:ext="edit" data="1" /> </o:shapelayout></xml><![endif]--> <div class="WordSection1"> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif">Hi all,<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;mso-fareast-language:EN-CA">I did a little analysis this morning of weather, bird distributions, and wind modeling. It looks like 2 different sources arising from the same weather system brought the Indigo Buntings. The first group was off the coast of the Carolinas on the evening of 15 April and arrived in western Nova Scotia on the afternoon of 16 April. The other group left or was in the vicinity of Bermuda the evening of 16 April arriving over an extensive geographical area of Nova Scotia on the afternoon of the 17<sup>th</sup> but focused on the South Shore. This last group was accompanied by some Rose-breasted Grosbeaks and Blue Grosbeaks which are common spring migrants in Bermuda in the spring. I suspect most birds arrived via Bermuda.<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;mso-fareast-language:EN-CA">This has probably happened fairly regularly in the past but we are more aware of it now because it is a species that is so noticeable at bird feeders and lawns and people have a reporting tool on Facebook.<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;mso-fareast-language:EN-CA">John<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p> </div> </blockquote> <br> </body> </html> --Boundary_(ID_129Hys9UUYIY6FwFBX4Wdw)--
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