“Spring bird watching is only good on warm sunny days.” False! Birds travel
at night, often utilizing southerly winds. When these tiny voyagers hit a
soggy, fogged morning there is often “fall out” when birds come down to the
safety and bug buffet of the woods and fields. This phenomenon is made more
dramatic near large bodies of water like the Gulf of
Mexico and the great lakes. There are stories of Texas beaches literally littered with tiny
song birds at dawn, birds that collapse on the sandy shore after crossing the
gulf in a single flight.
