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The west coast is an increasing worry. The southern border is experiencing it across the entire four states next to Mexico. The Mississippi River System is holding up, but, the southeast USA is seeing a deeper drought.The total picture is not improving.
Texas drought twists migrations of many birds (click title to entry - thank you)
Posted: Thursday, March 1, 2012 8:41 am
Strange things are aloft in the bird world.
Endangered whooping cranes flew 2,500 miles from Canada to Texas, where they usually spend the whole winter. Instead, they pecked around for a short time and flew back. In Nebraska, other cranes never left.
Some ducks just kept flying south _ all the way to Belize in Central America. And a snowy owl was spotted near Dallas, only the sixth time that's ever happened.
Throughout the winter, scientists have noticed these and other examples of bizarre bird migrations _ a result, they believe, of flocks becoming desperate for food and habitat becoming increasingly scarce because of the stubborn drought in Texas. The unusually mild winter in the Northeast and Midwest has even persuaded some birds they could stay put, fly shorter distances or turn back north earlier than normal....
It isn't just Texas profoundly effected by the drought. This is Kansas. Salina, Kansas is about in the center of the state. This is from the Salina Journal News. I think the University of Kansas is there. No, no that is Manhattan, Kansas. The State University is in Manhattan which is about 100 miles or so east of Salina. Garden City, Kansas is near the west Kansas border.
3/1/2012
