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?

Monday, August 29, 2011

Days #5 and #6 this blog down during temporary outage

This blog suffered from an Irene-caused electricity stoppage starting at 11am Sunday August 28th and not restored yet 2pm Monday August 29th.... this post is being made from a public building with internet access.  Our area suffered a loss of electricity, water, cellular telephone voice access, cellular data access AND landline phone access. Our house was very quiet indeed.

This blog will resume when electricity is restored to our area. We are one of 700,000 households in CT which still do not have electricity, for more than 24hours, and with no projected time of restoration. We heard that this is the worst/biggest electricity outage in the history of Connecticut.

This blog will catch-up on (and include) all hurricane birds reported on the listservs in any state along the East Coast, and beyond, plus those reports which have been emailed to me directly at robben99@gmail.com (thank you for those additional direct email reports to me, much appreciated).  

This catch-up will not happen today, although a small start may be made.  Look for this blog to be caught-up within a few days, as/when electricity is restored in Connecticut. When done, within a couple of days after we get electricity, this blog will contain a listing of every hurricane-bird report we could find.

Hopefully this blog and its aggregation of report summaries and links will be useful for anybody who wants to follow-up and do a more thorough/scientific analysis of the bird changes/patterns associated with this hurricane.

Sincere apologies for this temporary outage, especially since it occurred during the most interesting hours right before, during and after Irene's hard landfall in NY and CT!
Posted by Tom at 2:01 PM
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