North winds and clear skies made for another night of heavy migration into the mid-Atlantic. Here’s the radar from 7:00pm last night through 5:00am this morning.

Frames are every 1/2 hour. Click on the thumbnail to view the full-sized animation.

A weak cold front pushed east of the mid-Atlantic yesterday, allowing high pressure to build in with northerly winds overnight last night. Looking at the radar is appears that the upper level winds early in the evening were out of the northwest, and some birds even appear to have been pushed off the east coast. This is especially apparent in the southern half of NJ. The winds appear to have turned around to the northeast early enough last night that the best birding locations will likely be inland this morning. Patchy fog is expected in the northern half of the state, which does have a tendency to put birds down in the early morning, so today might be an interesting day to check Garret Mountain and Chimney Rock, as well as any other locations along the ridges (since birds will likely hesitate continuing south along the ridge, due to the fog).

Clear skies in the southern half of the state would suggest inland locations along the north shore of the Delaware Bay.

Good Birding

David

P.S. Come check out my migration forecast for the Mid-Atlantic on Birdcapemay.org

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