The Changing Seasonsdrifters

The Changing Seasons Drifters rom the Plains eastward, most of the continent found that the spring of 2001 lent itself to few superlatives.Bannon, Denatilt, Aubry, and David report from Quebec that"a never-ending series of nice sunny days was not conducive to the occurrence of any big fallouts."Leberman in the Appalachian Region: "Nearly every field observer [...] commented on the generally poor flight and lack of significant 'fallouts' of Neotropical migrants.At Powdermill Nature Reserve [...] this sprin•s banding total of about 1800 birds was the third lowest ever and 35% below the 40-year average:' Davis in the Southern Atlantic Coast Region: "The spring migration through the Region was generally uneventful, with mostly fair weather keeping birds on the move.[...] With low numbers of migrants and no new rarities found, many observers felt that this was one of the slowest, poorest spring migrations in years."Brock in the Middlewestern Prairie Region: "Cool conditions in late May proved unfavorable for generating migratory waves; consequently, many correspondents relegated the spring flight to the mediocre category (or worse):' Myers and Wallace in the Central Southern Region:"In general, landbird migration was quite dull.[...] At Ft. Morgan, Alabama the Sargents had the poorest banding spring of their career.Robert Duncan in nw.Florida and Myers in se.Louisiana both considered the migration among the worst in memory: Martin in the Northern Great Plains Region: "Passerine migration was unspectacular, with warblers making a particularly weak showing."Iliff in the Middle Atlantic Region: "Relatively little frontal activity was blamed both for the lack of many significant landbird flights and the extremely poor hawkwatching season at Ft. Smallwood.Perhaps as a result, comments on this sprin•s migration were another echo that this year was even poorer than last:' Elder in Ontario: "Spring moved across the province in a series of stops and starts but with no real weather events that affected bird migration: And Sexton in Texas: "After spectacular fall and winter seasons, it was perhaps predictable that the next avian passage would be a letdown.In most areas, both the weather and the migration were commonly termed 'unexceptional.'"A look back on "Changing Seasons" columns of the past reveals that not a few columnists have noted the abundance of negative adjectives in editors' characterizations of the spring migration (Plunkett 1969, Smith 1976, Gee

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