Northwest winds last night triggered a heavy flight over the Northeast and Mid-Atlantic last night. Here’s the radar from 6:00pm last night through 5:00am this morning.

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

As the last of the low pressure system winded up the eastern seaboard, high pressure and northwest winds built in behind it, triggering another big flight of nocturnal migrants. High densities of birds could be seen entering the Mid-Atlantic region from central and western NY, Eastern PA, and a smaller number from eastern NY (but only after the storms cleared early this morning). While the bulk of migration clearly occurred over the Mid-Altlantic (indicating an exodus of birds out of the region), there were still plenty of new birds arriving today. This will mean good birding at most migrant traps this morning, including inland sites such as Chimney Rock and Cold Brook, as well as coastal locations such as Island Beach SP and especially Cape May. Personally, I wish I was back in Cape May right now, as the passerine flight will be great, but the raptor show will also be a fun one today. Tonight is also shaping up for a good flight on northwest winds, so if you can’t get down to Cape May today, tomorrow morning should be a fantastic time as well.

As always, your observations are critical to making woodcreeper.com useful to the community, so please stop back and let us know what you saw!

Good Birding,

David