Bird Migration

[Stratocumulus perlucidus]

Hi, does anyone know anything about bird migration?

There has been loads of seagulls migrating in a southerley direction all morning in nw england. Just wondering if it is a sign. They dont usually behave like this in january.

[Coast]

I'm not sure that the common seagulls from the UK actually migrate do they?

I think most of them spend their lives in the car park outside McDonald's.....

[Stratocumulus perlucidus]

I dunno coast but there are hundreds migrating here

[Coast]

Flocking seagulls ?

[Backtrack]

Hi, does anyone know anything about bird migration?

There has been loads of seagulls migrating in a southerley direction all morning in nw england. Just wondering if it is a sign. They dont usually behave like this in january.

Lol?

The tide was probably on the turn at the Mersey. Of course they behave like this in January, and any other year. They will be going to the Mersey to feed.

[gottolovethisweather]

More appropriately keep your eyes for TEITS chasing them and other winter escape movements from all manner of birds. Lapwings are a good choice as they are restricted from feeding by the frozen fields. Various ducks in larger numbers is a good potential sign and then there is Waxwings and various other finches and buntings. Another good sign of incoming severe cold is when our very own Paul goes and buys another server.

Regards

gottolovethisweather

[Stratocumulus perlucidus]

3 servers was it not GTLTW :lol:

[greybing]

I'm not sure that the common seagulls from the UK actually migrate do they?

I think most of them spend their lives in the car park outside McDonald's.....

lol

[yamkin]

Snowy Owls Soar South From Arctic In Rare Mass Migration

Bird enthusiasts are reporting rising numbers of snowy owlsfrom the Arctic winging into the lower 48 states this winter in a mass southern migration that a leading owl researcher called "unbelievable."

Thousands of the snow-white birds, which stand 2 feet tall with 5-foot wingspans, have been spotted from coast to coast, feeding in farmlands in Idaho, roosting on rooftops in Montana, gliding over golf courses in Missouri and soaring over shorelines in Massachusetts.

A certain number of the iconic owls fly south from their Arctic breeding grounds each winter but rarely do so many venture so far away even amid large-scale, periodic southern migrations known as irruptions.

"What we're seeing now -- it's unbelievable," said Denver Holt, head of the Owl Research Institute in Montana.

"This is the most significant wildlife event in decades," added Holt, who has studied snowy owls in their Arctic tundra ecosystem for two decades.

http://news.yahoo.co...-175336821.html

Edited January 29, 2012 by yamkin