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Posted by steve siegel on 21:04:38 10/30/11
In Reply to: Re: Fallout Conditions Again! Cape FL Fallout! posted by Jeanette
Jeanette,
I would be interested to know when you were there. It sounds like several hours. I birded a much shorter time and only hit a few places, looking for a feeding tree (for video). I didn't find one. I agree that the park was birdier than usual.
Toe's comments about what constitutes a fallout leads to an interesting question. Presumably these birds were already stoked and fattened for flight before they got here. They were over the Gulf Stream and forced to land by squalls and an easterly wind, coming ashore en masse at 8 AM. Since they really didn't need to eat, once the rain let up, what would keep them in the Park? The persistent dry easterly wind would not be a head wind for them. Maybe they moved on by afternoon. In other words, perhaps this fallout was just an hour or two event.
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