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Winds



Hi Folks,

Had a great spoils trip (though I stumbled at the beginning) , and will have to do that again.

I've been watching the wind flow from the southwest over the last week or so and wondered if it might mean something in terms of our avifauna. Opposite from last year, the shorter-range winds have been from VA and WV (last year two tropical storms pushed everything west). My thinking here is that all the Golden-winged Warblers et al. being found in GA, NC and SC have resulted from these winds.

Other than a few W. Kingbirds and Tanagers (normal for any given year), a Bell's Vireo (Kennesaw in GA), the Franklin's Gulls (my folks had one as a yard bird in MA on Fri.) and the birds in Alabama, not much is going on that point to the longer range winds from west providing us with any vagrants.

FYI: MD just had a Caribbean Cave Swallow (left over from earlier in the year, or new arrival? Katleen O'grady's bird from earlier this year or at least of that event?).

Also, Clark's Hill Reservioir on the GA/SC border goes un-checked (as far as I can tell). The Franklin's Gulls and Sabine's in NC makes me wonder what's being missed there (had Franklin's and Lesser Black-backed there this time last year). Wish I had more time this year.

Cheers
Paul Champlin
New Ellenton, SC

Cheers
Paul

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