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G'day all,
Swift aficionados may be interested in the
following extract of an email I received at 11.30am AEST today from Sweers
Island in the Gulf of Carpentaria. Sweers Island resort is 30km
north of Burketown
Regards
Bob Forsyth, Mount Isa, NW
Qld.
" ...Just
had several hundred Fork tailed Swifts go over - they seemed to come from the
north - very hard to tell, as they were very high - close to 100ft - you could
hear them, barely see them. After 20 minutes they dropped lower and I guess
started feeding, swooping round the house.
A huge Cumulonimbus formed off the
top of the island this morning, with those rolls along the front edge like wind
shear - and as it spread out and moved south over the island the swifts appeared
(checked your books and they are "most active in front of summer storm
fronts").
Funny weather - when I got up 6.30am the breeze was from the SW,
cloud moving from that way too - then the whole thing backed up at the top end
of the island, it suddenly started to rain, the storm formed up and the whole
system began to move south - I guess the "Monsoon Trough" must have been there
or something!
Steady light rain now - not much in it. Birds are now
gone.
I wonder if anyone has noted them coming up from the south like last
time? It must be time for the last stragglers to head north out of the country?
... "
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