April 2015 Ornithological Club
The Roger Tory Peterson Institute Ornithological Club has regular monthly meetings from September through November and January through May. Please join us Wednesday, April 29, 2015 at 7:00PM for Gale VerHague – “Chasing Feathers: Birding with a Camera in Western New York and Beyond”. This is a free and public event. Expect to see and learn more about birds sightings like these American Avocets and this Yellow-throated Warbler.
Read MoreRarities on the Wing
I took this screenshot late this morning via this always helpful and very cool wind map. They use surface wind data from the National Digital Forecast Database, updated hourly, to create this national flow of air. Even without it in motion you can see there is a huge trough in the east, with winds shooting down from the northwest until you get to about Chicago, at which point the bend brings them screaming out of the south and then the east higher into New England. All of this unsettled weather can easily push avian migrants out of their chosen path, bringing southern resident rarities up to...
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