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Posted by Toe on 14:07:56 04/18/11
In Reply to: Re: Migrants Few & Far Between in Collier County posted by Alex Harper
Makes perfect sense that the number of migrants is tied to the rainfall. In spring, we all know that fallouts occur when weather fronts, i.e. rain, cause a migrating flock to drop in a certain location, whether it be High Island, Ft. De Soto, or A.D. Barnes. The number of rain event each spring may be tied to the number of cold fronts making their way south, since these have the tendency to cause lots of rain this year when mixing with the increasinly warm air to the south. Seeing how we weren't getting too many cold fronts later in winter, it was easy to predict that we'd have none in spring, which is the case. The last couple of fronts petered out way before making it down here. We have had some rain in the last two days down here, but even that hasn't done much to bring in the birds except for a couple of small locations.
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