The 20th year of daily fall migration has finally picked up along the
southern shore of Lake Erie at Black Swamp Bird Observatory's main banding
station at Navarre Marsh (Ottawa NWR) in northern Ohio. A good example of
lake effect can be gleaned by compairing captures with Allen Chartier's
along the NW shore region. After a near record spring migration (see
http://www.bsbo.org/passerine/spring_navarre_pmm.htm ) this fall has
been slow with predominant NE winds throuout early September. Now that west
northwest winds have started in regularity activity has picked up. You can
see daily activity at
http://www.bsbo.org/passerine/fall_passerine_migration_monitoring.htm or
follow the Banders blog at
http://bsbobirdbander.blogspot.com/More research and education activities can be found from the home page at
http://www.bsbobird.org/We expect movements to continue for at least another 4 weeks.
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