Strange Migrations

[Rivical]

Have the birds started north unusually early this year? Or is it just my yard?
We usually see a few Cardinal's over the winter and rarely Jay's, but they're back in force just behind that last big storm, and brought the Robin's with em!

I've got two fat Robin's now, a month and a half early. I've had to put all the feeders back out cuz there's just too many birds here now. The winter flock hasn't left but the sounds of spring are already in the air here, and there's nothing else for em to eat and nothing to build nests with yet cuz it's all still under a foot or more of snow. ???

There may be something serious to this magnetic core shift business that NASA's reporting. I even heard a report that the shark migration is weird and massive this year....

Anybody else know anything, or notice anything unusual?

 

[Pat Adkins]

national geographic said magnectic north isn't in the north pole anymore & that it is somewhere in siberia. article said compasses do not work properly anymore & to use a GPS instead. the wife was reading me quotes of the article a couple years ago

 

[scottyb]

Not really the same.
I do think its odd that in the past few years we've regularly had a ton of Canadian Geese hanging around here...in the summer.

 

[nonoss38]

Strange... Just today I was At the YMCA In Blair Nebraska and there were over 20+ Robins Scratching around under the snow.... Weird.......

 

[slow305]

North Pole Shift, Whiz Kid Astronomer… The Naturalist's Notebook

Magnetic north is still north of Canada, but is creeping toward geographic north and Russia at about 40 miles per year. I know they have stakes or something down at the South Pole station that they place every year marking the movement of magnetic south.

 

[Roc87]

national geographic said magnectic north isn't in the north pole anymore & that it is somewhere in siberia. article said compasses do not work properly anymore & to use a GPS instead. the wife was reading me quotes of the article a couple years ago

I'm not sure compasses ever were really accurate to true north, they've always been somewhat off, if you look at a high quality map (such as an aeronautical chart) it will tell you how to adjust for the compass reading. Here in Albuquerque, you have to subtract around 11 degrees from true north to get magnetic north. However, Magnetic north is moving at a much faster rate than it used to. In fact they had to shut down some of the runways at the Miami Fl, airport to remark the runway headings! (runways are aligned magnetically north, rounded to the nearest 10, if its magnetic heading is truly 217, it would be named runway 22)

 

[Rivical]

I haven't found news confirmation, but heard a radio report earlier this week on Coast to Coast AM that it was locally reported in FL and GA, that flight instruments may be inaccurate for a time because of some NASA work being done with the GPS systems down there. The report was rather strange and said that the area of possible problems was mostly off the east coast in the western region of the bermuda triangle. Of course there were opinions adding to the report, making claims that the entire triangle phenomena was related to the region being the fomer pole, prior to a previous pole swap that caused massive crust displacement and that the area has a magnetic memory which causes issues to this day. It got stranger from there. It even included talk of the possibility of high altitude toxic clouds being swept downward in increasing global magnetic anomolies, causing these wildlife die-off's.
.. but it sounds plausible even from the dumbed down news reports and scientific publications that we get today as the general public.

On the topic of the thread though, it would seem from several days of watching now, that the Robins were only here for about 3-days and moved on. Now I've gotten quite an array of birds just the same though, from putting out the extra feeders early.

 

[chrisgarrett]

Funny you should mentioned the robins. I'm in IL and I noticed a whole flock of them hanging around in the snow at work.