Pelee May 3

You know what's great about Pelee? Everything.  I sort of had an "off day" today - wandering around some seasonal trails prior to going to the tip. Turns out I missed a pretty decent reverse migration (at least the first half) - ah-well, what can you do?!

I'm rather sleepy right now and don't fully remember everything I saw, but it was another fun day in the park. Yellow-throated Vireos, Hooded Warb, Cerulean, etc

I had some cool "reverse migrants" today too like Purple Finch, House Sparrow, White-breasted Nuthatch, Rock Pigeon, Orange-crowned, Canada Warbler etc - and got some sweet "passerine in flight" pics...

Speaking of Canada Warblers, it was a FOY for me - along with birds like E. Whip-poor-will, Redstart, Chestnut Sided, Pewee etc


To make up for the short post, I'll show some extra pics (all taken May 3):

Also: almost forgot. A spectacle at Pt Pelee right now is the insane number of bats that start flying each evening!!!!!!!!



I've been telling everyone they're Hoary Bats - but after looking at some pics, I think they're Red Bats.. No?

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From Dr. Master's weather blog:




A highly unusual jet stream pattern is bringing a bizarre combination of heavy May snows, flooding, extreme fire danger, and well below average severe thunderstorm activity to the U.S. A strong "blocking" high pressure system has set up over Greenland, blocking the normal west-to-east progression of weather systems. A truly unusual situation has developed where the blocking high has forced a low pressure system near Greenland to move southwestwards to a point just off the New England coast. The blocking high has also forced an unusually sharp southwards dip in the jet stream over the Central U.S., where all-time May snowfall and cold temperature records are being set. This loop in the jet stream will get cut off from the main flow of the jet over the weekend, forming a "cutoff" low that will drift over the Southeast U.S., bringing cold, flooding rains of 2 - 4" over a wide swath of the Southeast. But over the Western U.S., an unusually sharp ridge of high pressure has set up, bringing record high temperatures, a strong Santa Ana wind event, and dangerous fire weather.