Last night was a big one! Here’s the radar from sunset last night through 5:30am this morning.
Frames are every 1/2 hour for reflectivity and velocity, and every hour for the regional composite. Click on the thumbnail to view the full-sized animation.
Migration was heavy over New Jersey last night, with movement changing from WNW–>ESE early in the night, to N–>S by morning. Still, birds were likely pushed to the coast over night, so coastal locations will be best this morning. See my post from last night for more information.
Good Birding!
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4 responses to “Heavy migration over Jerze”
Big flight inland today, with American Robins, White-throated Sparrows, Yellow-rumped Warblers, both Kinglets, Eastern Towhees, Hermit Thrushes, and Northern Flickers all over the place. One Black-throated Green warbler was also seen on my walk out.
An hour in a 50m patch of field, under the high tension wires on HMF property (between Grouser Rd. and Amwell Rd.) produced the following:
White-throated Sparrows (10, but over 100 on my walk out)
White-crowned Sparrow (15+, all of the nominate race, a high count for me here)
Lincoln’s Sparrow (4, a high count for me here)
Field Sparrow (2)
Swamp Sparrow (4)
Chipping Sparrow (2)
Song Sparrow (20)
Savannah Sparrow (10)
American Kestrel (1 male)
Northern Harrier (1 female)
Cooper’s Hawk (2)
Sharp-shinned Hawk (1)
Red-tailed Hawk (1)
Eastern Bluebird (2)
Eastern (Yellow) Palm Warbler (3)
Yellow-rumped Warbler (3, but many more on my way out)
Indigo Bunting (1)
Eastern Phoebe (3)
Good Birding
David
Celery Farm highlights: Orange-crowned Warbler, Tenn Warbler, continuing C. Moorhen (Im.), also White-crowned sp (2 Im), RE Vireo, 2 RC Kinglet, Palm Warbler, P-Finches, Sharpie. A Marsh Wren was also reported. Not high quantity but great quality!
Duke Property was nice for an hour this afternoon…I’m sure I missed some birds by not getting out until almost 1…
Kestrel- 4
Harrier- 1
Peregrine- 1
I hit one 750 ft long hedgerow in our grasslands..
Savannah- 40
Song- 15
White Crowned- 7
White Throated-1
Field- 3
Swamp- 1
Junco- 2
Meadowlark- 6
Palm Warbler-2
so yeah, definitely a lot of birds around!
waterfowl:
Canada Geese- approx. 200 all told
Wigeon- 7
Black Duck- 5
Wood Duck- a dozen or so
-Brian Clough
I have to echo Brian’s comments in that I did not start birding until 11:00AM this Monday morning – 10-15. Cape May County. Basically, I couldn’t “escape” from YELLOW-RUMPED WARBLERS. Absolutely everywhere on the ground. I think some were still migratin also. Reorientating themselves. Some actually came off the ocean at the Avalon sea watch at 5:00PM was it?? But you get the idea. Lots of SAVANNA SPARROWS also. I had no flycatchers. I did have many RUBY-CROWNED and GOLDEN-CROWNED KINGLETS also.