Natural History Wanderings

ebird reports:

November 2012 is shaping up to be an historic month. There could be more bird species east of the Mississippi this November than any other on record. Several factors are responsible for this: conditions for western vagrancy are good with more excitement to come; Hurricane Sandy’s shakeup left a fascinating bird load in many areas in early November and some of those effects are still worth watching; and of course, we have a major finch irruption year on our hands.

Highlights include:

• Cave Swallow appearing  in the east; they are also indicators other vagrants may be around
• Six confirmed Northern Lapwing reports from Massachusetts (3), Maine, New Jersey, and Newfoundland
• the days after Hurricane Sandy’s landfall saw the appearance of a suite of unseasonably weird Neotropical migrants from New Jersey north to Maine and inland to Ontario. …. including Eastern Wood-Pewee, Northern Parula, Bay-breasted Warbler, and Magnolia Warbler
• a winterfinch superflight

Read more at:  November bird movements — eBird