earlytorise
Well-known member
Do you agree with the title?
On the first part, not just any bad weather, of course - but rain that compels a migrant to land, or else strong winds blowing in migrants that might otherwise miss your place.
On the second part, it's not just unpleasant - I don't remember a day when landbird migrants were showing actively in good numbers in terrible weather.
If you remember a day with terrible weather but with a successful twitch or better yet a great find, I'd love to hear about it.
Probably my most unpleasant serious birding experience, weather-wise, is that time a couple of acquaintances and I marched down towards Spurn Point to look at some Snow Buntings, only to be told when we were halfway towards the point that the Snow Buntings were back on the beach. It was so cold, and windy, and the rain was icy!
In Hong Kong where I currently live, the weather is much milder except in the summer. You might get good waders out on the Mai Po mudflats during a spring rainstorm, in the middle of which I don't think I would try any other form of birding.
On the first part, not just any bad weather, of course - but rain that compels a migrant to land, or else strong winds blowing in migrants that might otherwise miss your place.
On the second part, it's not just unpleasant - I don't remember a day when landbird migrants were showing actively in good numbers in terrible weather.
If you remember a day with terrible weather but with a successful twitch or better yet a great find, I'd love to hear about it.
Probably my most unpleasant serious birding experience, weather-wise, is that time a couple of acquaintances and I marched down towards Spurn Point to look at some Snow Buntings, only to be told when we were halfway towards the point that the Snow Buntings were back on the beach. It was so cold, and windy, and the rain was icy!
In Hong Kong where I currently live, the weather is much milder except in the summer. You might get good waders out on the Mai Po mudflats during a spring rainstorm, in the middle of which I don't think I would try any other form of birding.