Northwest winds associated with high pressure across the region triggered heavy migration into the mid-Atlantic last night. 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.
The velocity images for NJ show strong southwestward movement, and coupled with the reflectivity, show a high density of birds overshooting the southeast coast of New Jersey. This can only mean one thing, Cape May will see lots of birds this morning, both piling in from the west, as well as redirecting after overshooting the coast to the east. The real question will be the species composition, since the transition from long-distance Neotropical migrants to shorter-distance migrants (such as the sparrow diversity we’ve been seeing lately) has already begun to occur.
Good Birding
David
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One response to “A big night for a coastal flight”
Species diversity in Cumberland County was mainly the bigger birds – BLUE JAYS and EASTERN PHOEBES predominated. Some NORTHERN
FLICKERS around. I had very few smaller birds either overhead or on the ground. That could have been the very strong winds.