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Posted by Angel & Mariel on 19:23:30 09/27/11
This afternoon a quick stroll produced some awesome birds. First bird seen was an Ovenbird which was calling incessantly. By now others were coming out to see what all the ruckus was about. A Swainson's Warbler flew right up and started to call from a hanging vine ten feet away, what great looks at a bird that usually stays deep within cover! A bit of pishing would bring up even more birds including two more Swainson's Warblers and a beautiful Magnolia Warbler. Two Swainson's Thrush were feeding under a large FL Trema which had several Parula and Gnaties bopping around. Most surprising was hearing a Solitary Sandpiper then watching the Solitary as a Prairie and Hooded Warbler worked a brush pile behind the puddle in the same binocular view! How many times does that happen?! A Merlin streamed by and shut down all of the activity, only Common Yellowthroat and Cardinals were bold enough to show again.
On the migration and weather front; an upper level low that has been churning over the Great Lakes is moving slowly to the NE and in turn will allow for the advancement of the trough that has been keeping the chance of precipitation high over the region. This will significantly lower the chances of rain across South FL for the rest of the week as dry air works its way into the peninsula. As this trough moves east tonight, light E to SE wind flow could increase chances of locally heavy rainfall along the east coast before it moves off into the Atlantic. This means that migrant traps along the east coast should favor better tomorrow. Surface winds will just be too light to shift migrants inland so stick with coastal locations while in search of migrants tomorrow. A late week upper level low will continue to move NE through Canada pushing another trough of low pressure south. This will trigger the movement of a cold front that is currently over the Tennessee Valley to move SE into FL and eventually stall out over the FL Keys by Friday night. Thursday through the weekend should prove to be fruitful with the arrival of the aforementioned cold front.
Pass by Badbirdz2 and share your sightings with us and the rest of the radar ornithology community. We don t usually see any sightings from our fellow birders in our home county. Your sightings are vital to the improvement of the interpretations we post on the site. Show some love and like the Badbirdz Reloaded page on Facebook to stay up to date with what is happening on radar as birds migrate. Also don t forget to check out the FL Keys Hawkwatch blog and pay them a visit this fall; they are doing big things down there! We volunteered this past weekend and saw 4 Mississippi Kite and ~75 Pergrine Falcon along with many other raptors and migrants.
Nature is Awesome
Angel & Mariel
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