Fw: [IBLE] Another Dimension to Birding

["james.d.mcintyre" <james dot d dot mcintyre at worldnet dot att dot net>]

----- Original Message ----- 
From: LCARRIGAN_55 
To: ible@yahoogroups.com 
Sent: Sunday, August 07, 2005 11:32 AM
Subject: Another Dimension to Birding


OK IBLER'S bear with me, 'cause this is cool!!!

This past Spring a Texas Gulf Coast birder put me onto a free tutorial 
site (http://virtual.clemson.edu/groups/birdrad/comment.htm) for 
interpreting biologicals (birds, insects, bats) from weather by 
viewing the doppler radar info on the NOAA website 
(www.nws.noaa.gov/).  It takes about 30 minutes to take the tutorial.

Just north of Springfield is one of those doppler radardomes (big 
soccerball in the sky), so I took the tutorial and have been trying to 
correlate what I see in the way of bird migration with the doppler 
images.  Last evening it worked!!!  There was a large movement of 
biologicals toward Springfield and American Falls Reservoir (I was 
thinking maybe bats coming from the desert to feed on insects coming 
off the lake).  This morning at Springfield there is a huge (literally 
10,000+ birds) staging of Bank Swallows covering all the power 
lines!!!  Plus, the dowitcher population has more than doubled, over a 
thousand birds this AM.  

So, Fall migration is getting underway and the technology available 
allows you to predict what's happening---now, that is cool!!! 

Brian Carrigan
Blackfoot 





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