NEWS FLASH
This unscheduled report is brought to you so Mr. Sterling's class at
Sand Lake Elementary can make an important announcement:
"Dear Journey North Participants!
The Robins contest is over!!! We, up here in Anchorage, Alaska
have sighted robins. They seemed to have come overnight. There was
nothing on Sunday and then they are everywhere today, April 29th.
Can you believe it? Finally!! The Isotherm last week was 42 degrees.
The two weeks prior were both at 41 degrees."
Sincerely,
The Robin Group in Mr. Sterling's class
Sand Lake Elementary School
Anchorage, Alaska
sterling@corcomsv.corcom.com
Five days earlier, on April 24th news arrived from our friends in Glennallen, Alaska that robins had arrived there. According to Beau Dean Sawyer of Mr. Szarzi's 7th Grade Class (jszarzi@igc.apc.org) who reported the first robin, "It was sitting on a stump at approximately 6:30". (Glennallen, Alaska 187 miles east of Anchorage and 114 miles north of Valdez.)
Early Bird Contest Winners Announced
Congratulations to these students for successfully answering this
question, "When do you think the first robins will arrive in
Anchorage, Alaska?"
FIRST PLACE
From MINNESOTA:
Hello from Maple Lake MN! It's colder here than in Alaska. We have
large flocks of robins here and think they will get to Anchorage on the
28th of April, with the females coming by May 4th.
Maple Lake Elementary/STRETCH
Rosemary Carlson (0881mlel@informns.k12.mn.us)
SECOND PLACE
From MAINE:
I think robins will reach Alaska sometime in the end of April or the
beginning of May because I looked in the encyclopedia under Alaskan
climates. It says in March the highs are 34 but Alaska had a cold winter
and the frost went deeper so the 36 F would come later. So that the robins
will probably come later than March.
Emma Dyer , Grade four, Conners School, Bar Harbor, Maine
Hersey G. Four (mhg4@emerson.u98.k12.me.us)
THIRD PLACE
From ALASKA:
We think they will arrive in Anchorage on April 16th, 1996.
Kathy Clark (kclark@kpbsd.k12.ak.us)
In our next report we will provide a summary of robin migration data from Spring, 1995. We will also summaries the migration information you helped gather this spring. You will be able compare the two sets of data and look for similarities and differences between the 2 seasons.
The Next Robin Migration Update Will be Posted on May 7, 1996.
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