Go East Young Bird. Here’s the radar from 6:00pm last night through 6:00am this morning.
Frames are every 1/2 hour. Click on the thumbnail to view the full-sized animation.
With northwest winds dominating the upper-air, and light and variable winds at the surface, the stage was set once again for heavy migration along the east coast. Further inland, though, winds had already turned WSW, and as you can see from the regional composite, that resulted in migration being restricted to the coastal states only. Given the westerly component to the wind, expect coastal migrant traps to hold the most birds this morning. Liberty State Park, Sandy Hook, and Island Beach SP, and Brigantine should all hold good numbers of new arrivals, and certainly Cape May will live up to it’s reputation as one of the greatest fall migrant traps on the east coast.
Good Birding
David
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We went to Sandy Hook this afternoon to see the Sage Thrasher which was awesome. We got word from Evan Obercian that he had 4 Vesper Sparrows along the parking area just south of K-lot. We were very lucky to find 2 of them 6 hours after his initial sighting. It was obvious that there were many YR Warblers and sparrows around in the short time we were on the Hook.