Sorry for the recent absence, but May is my field season down in Florida, and usually coincides with some time when I’m away from internet access. I’ve tried over the last three years to make www.woodcreeper.com more “portable”, or “automated” but without a second person willing to take over downloading, assembling, and posting the radar (not to mention any interpretation), that task has become impossible. I thought (incorrectly) that the person doing the programming for my site would have the animations automated by now… I also thought that the satellite internet service we have down in Everglades National Park would be strong enough to download the imagery each morning. Unfortunately it’s barely even strong enough for me to post a message to a blog, or update the migration forecasts on BirdCapeMay.org, both of which are simply text-based.
Believe me, this is more painful to me than you can imagine; so when I receive emails telling me “to give up”, and that I “always bail out right when migration is picking up”, I get a wee bit upset. That said; I understand your frustration!

So here’s the deal. I’m in Florida for the next week and a half, with limited to no internet ability until I return on May 16th. I will have internet tomorrow night (Wed.) and Thursday morning, and will post the radar then. I will be without internet access from Thursday night through Sunday night, and then only very limited access for the rest of next week. From Monday to Friday of next week I will attempt to post text-only entries with respect to the radar, but I will still have a 5-day migration forecast on BirdCapeMay.org during the entire period. Once I get back to New Jersey on the 16th, I can work on rebuilding the archive of imagery, and continue to provide nightly migration reports with the radar.

As I said (and have said before), I’m sorry for any inconvenience this has caused. My intention is still to eventually provide a constant up-to-date radar interpretation website for New Jersey… in the meantime I hope you can bear with me.

Good Birding and Radar Watching,

David