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Posted by Toe on 07:53:04 04/29/09
Since I've only been birding 10 years, I can't say how migrations were historically down here. However, in my 10 years this has been by far the crappiest spring migration I've seen hands down. Since the few warblers I saw last Wednesday, 4/22, I think I've seen a total of 2 warblers and no other migrants in several attempts. Reports I'm getting from others are the same. Does anyone recall ever having a week in late April where there were no migrants at all down here? Have we ever had an entire month of April with no real showing of migrants?
Did anyone bird the spring migration of 1977? I mention this year since, although I was not birding, I was longlining for swordfish. We were able to fish April 1st with good weather, but were kept at port after that until May 6 due to strong east winds. I'm not convinced that our slow spring this year is entirely due to the east winds. Even when we didn't have such strong winds earlier in the month, the birding still sucked. Other springs we've still had a decent amount of birds despite the lack of "rain to bring them down" or "fronts to cause fallouts" and such. Yes, weather events are needed for us to get good numbers of birds. But, in the past I've seen that without these weather events, we still have at least some migrants, not the complete void we have now. I open up the floor for discussion.
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