This site focuses on these questions


Sept 13: WHITE-TAILED TROPICBIRD found in CT on Aug 28th! Read this fascinating story at Greg's site....

SEPT 10: CURRENTLY WORKING WITH THE eBIRD TEAM TO GET ALL HURRICANE BIRDS INTO eBIRD. PLEASE ENTER YOUR STORM-BIRDS INTO eBIRD THIS WEEK, OR CONTACT ME (robben99@gmail.com) OR MARSHALL ILIFF TO ASSIST.

This Hurricane Irene blog was meant to be helpful for just ONE WEEK to provide REAL-TIME reporting of ALL Atlantic coast storm-birds DURING the "teeth" of the storm, but the storm's winds and flooding killed our electricity and this blog. Without electricity, water and internet for 102 hours prevented us reporting during the most exciting part of the hurricane and its birding aftermath.
Instead of trying to "catch-up" and reconstruct those 102 missing hours from the archived listserv reports, we will instead 1) summarize them, 2) learn what we can from this "experiment" in real-time-hurricane-bird-blogging, 3) request eBird data entry of all hurricane reports, and 4) get ready for the NEXT hurricane this year!

Therefore we will refocus on the latest current map of the NEXT hurricanes and their projected storm tracks.....
Tropical Storms and Hurricanes (and the wind speed probabilities map... Wind Speed Projections ) and prepare again to answer these questions....
What impacts will the next hurricane have on birds on the East Coast of the USA (plus the western Atlantic and maritime Canada)? And how will that be reflected on the twenty main internet bird lists covering that region?

Thursday, September 1, 2011

Day #9 One-hundred hours with no electricity, water, etc

It is 5pm Thursday September 1st and still no electricity, water, etc. in our area of central Connecticut.  It has been over 102 hours since we lost electricity, water, etc.  [shortly after this post electricity was restored]

This blog will be catching-up after electricity is restored, but meanwhile enjoy the excellent summaries emerging such as Marshall Iliff's summary on eBird today....
Hurricane Irene redux — eBird

And PLEASE follow Marshall's request for all Hurricane Irene bird reports to be entered in eBird. This will allow outstanding analyses, such as these maps of Sooty and Bridled Terns seen during this multi-day storm....
Explore Data for Sooty Tern map
and
Explore Data for Bridled Tern map
Posted by Tom at 5:11 PM

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