Yes I am getting old; of course it is La Nina and not El Nino. Thanks Mike Carter for waking me up. I well remember measuring and weighing swiftlet nestlings six days a week throughout the dry heat of the 1986/7 El Nino season at Chillagoe. It was so dry that some of the nests came unstuck and fell off the cave roof and parent s got so little food that many nestlings died.
> > G’day bird enthusiasts > > The only time in my Swift records (1940-2010) when Western > Australia reported more FTS than Central Australia (NT & SA) or > Eastern Australia was the 1955/6 season, which was an La Nina year > that brought much of WA its highest rainfall ever. (www.bom.gov/ > climate/enso/ninacomp). > > More recently – like this month we had an La Nina event that > brought huge amounts of rain to Toowoomba, Brisbane, North coastal > NSW, and Neville Schrader reported 50+ FTS flying very fast and > very directly to the North over Parkes the day before Toowoomba had > its downpour. Neville suggests that they were heading for this event. > > I am wondering if any of you have observations that would support > or contradict the concept that FTS are attracted to heavy rainfall > events. > > Looking forward to your ideas and your evidence. > > Cheers & Happy birding > > Mike > =================== > Michael Tarburton > tarburton.m@optusnet.com.au > =================== > > >
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