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| Great Blue Herons at nest, Lake Wallace, July 8, 2013 |
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| Great Blue Herons at nest, Lake Wallace, July 8, 2013 |
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| Great Blue Herons at nest, Lake Wallace, July 8, 2013 |
Our weather continues to feel quite tropical
with nighttime lows around 70-75 and daytime temperatures into the 80’s with high
humidity. Yesterday I made a brief stop
back to Lake Wallace and once again ran across good numbers of Wood Ducks and
Hooded Mergansers. The Sora that has
been there for several days continues to sound off but again eluded me from
actually seeing it. The Great Blue
Herons are still in the nest and I noticed a third youngster I had missed on
previous visits. Winsor Dam was quite
quiet during my brief visit there.
A new tropical storm formed recently from
a tropical wave out in the Atlantic. The
new storm is named Chantal and is currently near the Lesser Antilles and is
forecast to travel south of Puerto Rico and then hit Hispaniola (Haiti and the
Dominican Republic) before moving into the Bahamas on Thursday and then be in
the northern Bahamas and off the coast of Florida on Saturday. The conditions are not optimal for a major
strengthening of the storm and the forecast keeps it a tropical storm
throughout. The confidence of the
forecast after hitting Hispaniola is quite low so there are more questions then
answers as to where the storm will end up.
It is worth watching but the storm seems unlikely at this point to have
an impact here any time soon.
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