Well, with the cold front clearing yesterday and the winds last night out of the Northwest, it’s no wonder that the radar lit up like Christmas. Although my home computer is down, when I got into work and saw last night’s radar it was obvious that I’d have to post something! I downloaded both the velocity and the base reflectivity from the NCAR Real-Time site. Here are the animations from 10pm last night to 5am this morning:
Awesome!
I’d like to hear how the morning flight at Higbee’s was today- so anyone with information please post a reply.
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Sandy Hook this AM had a huge influx of Yellow-Rumped Warblers,both
Kinglets and Phoebes as well as very good numbers of sparrows.We saw
one Clay-Colored Sparrow. Unable to relocate the Western Kingbird
seen yesterday.
Michael O’Brien was kind enough to send me a report from the Morning Flight at Higbee’s:
> Hi Dave,
>
> Vince Elia was counting the morning flight for the
> past two days so I don’t
> have any final totals but we did have a significant
> flight. I think on
> Monday there were something like 9000 Yellow-rumped
> Warblers. Today’s total
> was lower but still several thousand. Very little
> diversity over the past
> two days. We should still have a much bigger
> Yellow-rump flight coming in
> the next 7-10 days. Last year’s high count was
> around 70,000 on October 19.
Palmyra in Burlington County this morning was good. About 100 sparrows
around – mostly White-throated and Song. Also Field, Chipping,
Savanah, and Swamp. 40 warblers – mostly Yellow-rumped and Palm,
but 2 Black-throated Blue, 1 Black-throated Green, 1 Parula, and
1 very late Mourning. The Golden-crowned Kinglets and Juncos were
quite numerous. A good migrant morning.