Rammie - 2013
'09 maps for: Bea -- Buck -- Caley -- Claws -- Conomo -- Hix -- Hudson 09 -- Isabel -- Katy -- L.R. --
Moffet -- Mr. Hannah -- Ozzie -- Penelope -- Rafael
2010 maps for: Belle -- Buck -- Gunny -- Hudson -- Mr. Hannah -- Neale -- North Fork Bob -- Penelope -- Sanford -- Sr. Bones -- Thatch
2011 maps: Belle -- Buck -- Henrietta -- Katbird -- North Fork Bob -- Pemi -- Saco -- Sanford -- Sr. Bones -- Snowy -- Thatch -- Tucker
2012 maps: Art -- Belle -- Bridger -- Chip -- Cutch -- Jill -- North Fork Bob -- Rammie -- Snowy -- Sr. Bones -- Thatch
2013 maps: Art -- Belle -- Bridger -- DJ -- Donovan -- Edwin -- Icarius -- Mackenzie -- Nick -- North Fork Bob --
Quin -- Rammie -- Rodney -- Ron -- Snowy -- Sr. Bones -- Tango -- Woody
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	Rammie's 2013 migration - Thanks to our colleagues at Movebank.org, we have our first interactive maps. You can zoom in on any part of Rammie's track as he migrated from South America back to his nest on the Westport River in SE Massachusetts. Slide the yellow dot along the route, or use the calendar to see where he was on any given day.      My static, but annotated, maps are below--awaiting updating for the last day of his spring migration, when he covered 310 miles, from northeastern MD to his home in southeastern MA in one long haul.
	15-17 Mar 2013 - Rammie started migrating a day after his neighbor, Bridger (salmon B), but had caught up to him by midday on the 22nd.
	Fall 2012 - Rammie got to South America flying under our radar. Somehow he made it all the way to Venezuela without being near a cell tower around mid-day, which is when his transmitter is programmed to text home. The white arrows indicate the most likely route he took. The one thing we do know is that he did not follow the orange line from his last location up in Virginia down to his wintering grounds in Venezuela.
	Winter 2012-13 - Our data for Rammie's winter activity begins in early Feb. From that time until he left on 15 March, his core area was a remarkably small 0.25 square miles!
	15-17 Mar 2013 - Here's Rammie's track through northwestern Venezuela. So what's up with the zig-zagging? This is a more mountainous part of the country than it appears on this map. Scroll down... (I marked the small reservoir where Homer, one of our Martha's Vineyard juveniles, spent two winters.)
	15-17 Mar 2013 - Here's a rough track of Rammie's movement on the 15th -17th. Looks like he doesn't dodge all the mountains in his way, but it also looks like there's no way to avoid them all.
	17-22 Mar 2013 - Rammie crossed the Caribbean probably faster than any other bird we have tracked. He did this because he took a shortcut, skipping Hispaniola altogether. He barely stopped to rest in Jamaica.
	23-26 Mar 2013 - Rammie is a bird on a mission--to get back to his nest before any other male gets ideas about taking over this turf. The first time he stopped was up in North Carolina.
	26 Mar 2013 - Rammie hopped from lake to lake going through North Carolina, but didn't stop to fish along the way. He finally stopped for a couple of days--probably weather related--north of Falls Lake at Lake Michie.
	30-31 Mar 2013 - After a couple days of rest, Rammie made a big move on the 30th, covering all of Virginia in a single bound.